Michael Lyne

Michael Dillon Lyne CB DL AFC AFRAeS (March 23, 1919 - December 21, 1997 ) was a British Air Force officer in the Royal Air Force , who last served as Major General ( Air Vice Marshal ) between 1970 and 1971 as head of the Department of Air Force Training in the Ministry of Defense was. He was seriously injured after a crash during World War II and was in a military hospital for a year. For his flying achievements in World War II and as an aerobatic pilot for the RAF in the early post-war period, he was honored with the Air Force Cross (AFC) and two AFC badges.

Life

Pilot training and World War II

As a pilot of a fighter plane type Supermarine Spitfire crashed Michael Lyne in early June 1940 after the Battle of Dunkirk , and one year there was long for recreation in military hospitals

Lyne began his aviation training as a flight cadet in 1937 in the B-Squadron of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell , the officers' school of the British Air Force. On July 29, 1939 he was accepted as a professional soldier ( Permanent Commission ) in the RAF and promoted to lieutenant ( pilot officer ). At the same time he became a pilot of a fighter plane type Supermarine Spitfire in No. 19 Squadron RAF on the military airfield RAF Duxford. At the beginning of June 1940 he was shot in the knee at the Battle of Dunkirk in an aerial combat, but nevertheless managed to return to Great Britain and crashed at Deal . Subsequently, a year after the operations, he was in a military hospital to recover.

In 1941 Lyne returned to military service and was promoted to first lieutenant ( Flying Officer ) on September 3, 1940 . He was initially used as a pilot of a Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft in the MSFU ( Merchant Ship Fighter Unit ) stationed at the RAF Speke Air Force Base . The planes were launched by catapults from the deck of specially converted merchant ships. The main task of this unit was the protection of convoys through the Atlantic Ocean and the defense against attacks by the long-range aircraft of the German Air Force of the type Focke-Wulf Fw 200 . After an interception mission, the pilots of the Hawker Hurricanes had to jump with the parachute and hope that they will be rescued, since the merchant ships had no landing or pick-up possibilities after the catapult launch of the aircraft.

After attending a course for gunners 1942 and a tour of the United States , he was on 14 March 1944 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of a school board and Flak -Protect ( Air Gunnery School ) in Egypt . For his services there he was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC) for the first time on June 8, 1944 . Towards the end of the Second World War he became an officer in the headquarters of the Air Forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East MEDME ( RAF Mediterranean and Middle East ) on January 2, 1945 .

Staff officer in the post-war period

As commander of a with de Havilland Vampire DH.100 - fighters Michael Lyne built after 1945, the first jet aircraft aerobatics unit of the RAF

Lyne was promoted to captain ( Flight Lieutenant ) on May 21, 1946 , with the promotion being dated back to January 29, 1943. In October 1946, after his promotion on October 1, 1946 to Major ( Squadron Leader ) in command of No. 1, stationed at the RAF Chilbolton Air Force Base . 54 Squadron RAF and built them with single-jet combat aircraft of the type de Havilland Vampire DH.100 equipped Season for secret exercises for the world's first jet airplane - aerobatic military unit from. After being presented at the Brussels air show , the concept was officially approved and he was asked to direct air shows in the UK. For his services there he was awarded his first "clasp" for the Air Force Cross on January 1, 1948 instead of a second AFC.

After attending RAF Staff College Bracknell in 1948, Lyne became Personal Staff Officer to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff , Air Marshal Hugh Walmsley, in 1949 . He then returned to RAF Staff College Bracknell as a squadron captain of a training squadron in 1950 and was then, after his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel ( Wing Commander ) on January 1, 1951, commander of No. 1, which was also stationed at RAF Cranwell Air Force Base . 1 Initial Training School RAF . He was then in March 1954 Head of Flight Training CFI ( Chief Flying Instructor ) at the Air Force Flight School ( RAF Flying College ) and flew on 24 June 1955, a combat aircraft of type English Electric Canberra of Norway over the North Pole to Alaska . For this performance he received his second clasp to the AFC instead of a third Air Force Cross on January 2, 1956 and was promoted to Colonel ( Group Captain ) on July 1, 1957 . He then took over the post of commander of the RAF Wildenrath air force base in 1958 .

Ascent to Air Vice Marshal

On January 26, 1961, Lyne was air force attaché at the embassy in the Soviet Union and was promoted to Air Commodore on July 1, 1962 in this use . During this time the Cuban Missile Crisis fell in October 1962 . After his return from the Soviet Union, he succeeded Air Commodore Eric Nelson on August 21, 1963, in command of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, the officers' school of the British Air Force. At the age of 44, he was the youngest in command of this military school until then and was replaced in this role by Air Commodore Ian Lawson on December 28, 1964 .

After further courses Lyne on 23 August 1965 Commander (was Air Officer Commanding ) of the Flight Training Command ( RAF Flying Training Command belonging) No. 23 Group RAF and was responsible for the entire pilot training of the flight training command. He was promoted to Major General ( Air Vice Marshal ) in this role on July 1, 1966 . On January 1, 1968, he became Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). He then served between January 8, 1968 and March 7, 1970 as Senior Air Force Representative ( Senior RAF Member ) in the command staff of the Imperial Defense College . Most recently, he was from March 7, 1970 until his retirement from active military service on April 10, 1971 head of the main department of air force training in the Ministry of Defense.

Lyne 1973 was Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the county Lincolnshire . He was also involved as an entrepreneur in the private sector and founded the Lincolnshire Microprocessor Society in 1979 .

Web links

Biography on Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organization

Individual evidence

↑ London Gazette . No. 34687, HMSO, London, September 19, 1939, p. 6352 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
↑ London Gazette . No. 34970, HMSO, London, October 15, 1940, p. 6021 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 36544, HMSO, London, June 8, 1944, p. 2648 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 38161, HMSO, London, January 1, 1948, p. 39 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 40669, HMSO, London, January 2, 1956, p. 34 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 44484, HMSO, London, January 1, 1968, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).

personal data
SURNAME	Lyne, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lyne, Michael Dillon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Air Force officer in the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1919
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1997

[1] London Gazette . No. 34687, HMSO, London, September 19, 1939, p. 6352 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).

[2] London Gazette . No. 34970, HMSO, London, October 15, 1940, p. 6021 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).

[3] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 36544, HMSO, London, June 8, 1944, p. 2648 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).

[4] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 38161, HMSO, London, January 1, 1948, p. 39 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).

[5] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 40669, HMSO, London, January 2, 1956, p. 34 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).

[6] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 44484, HMSO, London, January 1, 1968, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).