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- proper noun The fourth most senior rank active in the
Royal Air Force , ranking above Group Captain and immediately belowAir Vice Marshal .
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Examples
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On one point the Air Commodore was adamant; he would not rouse the pilot to interrogate him again that night.
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The Air Commodore had seen him for a quarter of an hour and had wished him luck.
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In a chatty letter on June 9, 1948, to Lady Tedder, wife of Sir Arthur Tedder, the British Chief of Air Staff in London, the Air Commodore thanked her for some sunflower seeds and said his tomatoes were coming along splendidly.
Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010
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Given the rank of Air Commodore, Benn worked for a while as Director of Public Relations at the Air Ministry.
Quotes of the Day 2007
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Given that the school has churned out amongst others, a Prime Minister, a Welsh MP, a Welsh Assembly Member, a 'Brookside' actor, an Air Commodore, numerous academics, a comedian, professional footballers, an Olympian and a film director then it must have been doing something right.
Motto 2007
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"Despite our proactive measures, it will haunt us," Air Commodore Khalid Banuri, a director in Pakistan's Strategic Plans Division, said of the bin Laden meeting.
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'I used to find the streets of Antwerp', says Air Commodore
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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The Knights had been told there was not "a realistic prospect" of convicting the Air Commodore, who has since retired from the RAF and now has an executive role with a leading MoD equipment supplier.
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Some now hold the AFPS rank of Air Commodore or Brigadier and wear strange badges of rank depicted by crowns and a parliamentary portcullis.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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"The jet fighters were flown from the US to Jacobabad by Pakistan Air Force pilots, who had recently completed training on the new aircraft in the US," Air Commodore
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