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02 1983 english stage and screen actor volunteered as a navy pilot during second world war and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the air branch admiral of the fleet sir caspar john 1903 1984 first sea lord 1960 63 and the first british naval aviator to reach the highest rank within the rn admiral sir walter couchman 1905 1981 naval observer who earned his pilot s wings too he led the fly past for the coronation fleet review in june 1953 laurence olivier 1907 1989 english stage and screen actor and director volunteered as a navy pilot during the second world war and rose to the rank of lieutenant in the air branch duncan hamilton english grand prix driver and winner of the 1953 24 hours of le mans lieutenant commander a eugene esmonde 1909 1942 posthumously awarded the victoria cross for leading 825 naval air squadron swordfish torpedo bombers in an attack on german capital ships during the channel dash lieutenant commander roy sydney baker falkner 1916 1944 awarded the distinguished service order for leading operation tungsten attack on the german battleship tirpitz michael hordern 1911 1995 actor served as fighter controller during world war ii jeffrey quill 1913 1996 raf officer and spitfire test pilot vickers armstrongs who served five months with fleet air arm as t lt cdr rnvr in 1944 1945 helping to develop better carrier deck landings with the supermarine seafire the naval version of the spitfire kenneth more 1914 1982 actor including films such as reach for the sky and sink the bismarck commander charles lamb 1914 1981 author of the second world war fleet air arm autobiography war in a stringbag vice admiral sir peter compston 1915 2000 served briefly in the british army then in the raf for two years before transferring as a pilot to the royal navy in 1938 commander stanley orr 1916 2003 was the highest scoring fighter ace of the royal navy during the second world war admiral sir leslie derek empson 1918 1997 naval pilot who joined the royal navy as a naval rating in his flying career executed 782 aircraft carrier landings without a mishap rear admiral cedric kenelm roberts 1918 2011 always known as chico a distinguished naval pilot who joined the royal navy as a naval rating in 1940 he was personal pilot to vice admiral lumley lyster in 1943 commanded three naval air squadrons and was shot down during the korean war later he commanded three naval air stations and ended his naval flying career as flag officer naval flying training 1968 71 228 lieutenant commander charles wines charlie wines 1917 1991 joined the royal navy as a supply assistant flew swordfish torpedo bomber as a rating pilot in the second world war commissioned as a pilot in 1944 he later spent more than twenty years in the same job as a serving and retired officer as the faa drafting officer and as such the career manager for thousands of faa ratings rear admiral dennis cambell 1907 2000 inventor of the angled flight deck for aircraft carriers in 1951 rear admiral nick goodhart 1919 2011 inventor of the mirror sight deck landing system for aircraft carriers in 1951 captain eric winkle brown 1919 2016 holds the world record for the most types of aircraft flown by an individual 487 types as a test pilot he made the first ever jet landing on an aircraft carrier in december 1945 lieutenant commander john moffat 1919 2016 crippled the bismarck on 26 may 1941 admiral sir john treacher 1924 2018 naval pilot who was promoted rear admiral at the age of 45 and held four important flag appointments before leaving the royal navy in 1977 despite many expecting him to become first sea lord for a career in business was at the helm of westland during the political drama of the 1980s admiral sir ray lygo 1924 2012 naval pilot who joined the royal navy as a naval rating in 1942 and who reached first sea lord in 1978 led a successful career in industry and was chief executive and deputy chairman of british aerospace in the 1980s sir george martin 1926 2016 record producer for the beatles admiral of the fleet sir ben bathurst 1936 2025 first sea lord 1993 95 and the last royal navy officer to be promoted to five star rank rear admiral sir robert woodard c 1939 naval aviator commanded two naval air squadrons two warships a naval air station the clyde submarine base and ended his career as the flag officer royal yachts 1990 95 the only aviator to command the royal yacht hmy britannia commander nigel david sharkey ward 1943 2024 commanded 801 naval air squadron during the 1982 falklands war rear admiral iain henderson c 1948 the first officer and first naval officer to hold the modern appointment of air officer commanding 3 group 2000 01 vice admiral sir adrian johns c 1952 is the first naval aviator to hold the post of governor of gibraltar commander hrh prince andrew duke of york later andrew mountbatten windsor 1960 served during the falklands war 1982 and for some years afterwards captain brian young 1930 2009 former sea hawk pilot later commanded the task group for operation paraquet during the falklands war john cecil moore english pilot author and conservationist born in tewksbury 1907 died bristol 1967 served in ww2 some 64 naval pilots and nine observers have reached flag rank in the royal navy and four royal marines pilots general rank in the royal marines four of these admirals with pilot s wings were air engineering officers test pilots and two were supply officers two of the non executive officers reached four star rank a supply officer admiral sir brian brown 1934 and a royal marine general sir peter whiteley 1920 2016 at least 21 naval air engineer officers aeos have reached flag rank including the four test pilots see above see also edit list of active united kingdom military aircraft list of fleet air arm aircraft squadrons list of aircraft wings of the royal navy list of fleet air arm groups list of all naval aircraft current and former of the united kingdom list of aircraft of the fleet air arm fleet air 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