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Air and Commodore
* Air Commodore
* Air Commodore Richard Lacey ( 2004 )
* Air Commodore Gordon Moulds ( 2008 )
The governor also traditionally serves as Honorary and Regimental Colonel in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 22 ( City of Sydney ) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
* Honorary Air Commodore, Royal Air Force Coningsby
* Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE inventor of the jet engine
However, at a SHAEF press conference on 16 February 1945, two days after the Bombing of Dresden, British Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson replied to a question by one of the journalists that the primary target of the bombing had been on communications to prevent the Germans from moving military supplies and to stop movement in all directions if possible.
On 22 January, the RAF director of bomber operations, Air Commodore Sydney Bufton, sent a memo to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, suggesting that what appeared to be a coordinated air attack by the RAF to aid the current Soviet offensive would have a detrimental effect on German morale.
* Air Commodore Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, Royal Air Force officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Air Commodore ( since 27 April 2005 )
Air Commodore Lukis, Air Officer Commanding, North East Area, reported on 28 May 1942, that Pilot Officer Trench, RAAF had inspected the countryside near Portland Roads ( also known as Weymouth Bay ), with Colonel Mills and Captain Herman G. Cox of the USAAF.
* Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Wittering
* Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Lyneham
* Honorary Air Commodore of the University of London Air Squadron
* Honorary Air Commodore, Royal Air Force Lossiemouth.

Air and rank
* Air marshal, a senior air officer rank used in Commonwealth countries
In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).
In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.
Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.
LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.
Powers was discharged from the Air Force in 1956 with the rank of captain.
Homer achieved the rank of captain before his honorable discharge from active duty in 1995 and his acceptance of a Reserve Commission in order to continue his career as an Air Force officer.
During his time in the Air Force Reserve, he achieved the rank of major.
His preference was for navigator rather than pilot, for which he underwent extensive training in Canada, to qualify as an Air Navigator with the rank of Sergeant in 1944.
Once Air-chief Marshal Pervez Kureshi was retired, the most junior air marshal Muschaf Mir ( who worked with Musharraf in 1996 to assist ISI in Taliban matters ) was appointed to four-star rank as well as elevated as Chief of Air Staff.
His brother, Lawrence Heinlein, served in the Army, the Air Force, and the Missouri National Guard and rose to the rank of major general.
* Senior Aircraftsman, British Royal Air Force rank
* Senior Aircraftman, a rank in the Royal Air Force
* Assistant Warrant Officer, a rank in Pakistan Air Force above Senior Technician and below Warrant Officer
* Chief Warrant Officer, the most senior Army and Air Force non-commissioned member ( NCM ) rank of the Canadian Forces
Warrant officer is a rank between flight sergeant and pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.
The Royal Australian Air Force rank of Warrant Officer ( WOFF ) is the Air Force's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 is a Flight Sergeant ).

Air and Royal
The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.
International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.
* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
* John Morgan-Canadian comedian best known for his roles on Royal Canadian Air Farce.
* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )
Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow
Skyflash entered service with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) on their Phantom FG. 1 / FGR. 2 in 1976, and later on the Tornado F3.
* Royal Australian Air Force
* Royal Bahraini Air Force
* Royal Canadian Air Force
* Royal Jordanian Air Force
* Royal Moroccan Air Force

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