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Details on 5.1.2009 21:39:57
What about the thousands of women? Flight Officer was a womens rank, equivalent of captain, indicating she was in charge of a flight, meaning a company commander.

Your friends of WWII on 16.5.2008 18:17:56
The list is welll reserched. I congradulate you on the list. Although your missing 1 Rank! There is one more rank of the lowest class!

Lech Lesiak Edmonton Alberta Canada on 25.12.2007 22:39:14
The page containing RAF ranks has some errors in it. I was an officer in the RCAF in the 1960s, and we used the same ranks and abbreviations as the British in those days.

The rank you have as Flight Officer should be Flying Officer.

Your abbreviations for officer ranks are also incorrect.

Officer ranks all used capital letters and slashes so that Group Captain was G/C, Wing Commander was W/C, and so forth. Non-commissioned ranks did not use slashes. The correct designation for a Flight Sergeant is FS. There were two classes of Warrant Officer - classes 1 and 2. These were abbreviated as WO1 and WO2.

LAC also had a female equivalent - LAW, Leading Aircraftswoman.

Regards,
Lech Lesiak
Edmonton Alberta Canada
Lech_Lesiak@yahoo.ca

Wijou on 19.9.2007 22:14:45
You left out SAC - Senior Aircraftsman - in your R.A.F. ranks.