Flight Lieutenant. A commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force equivalent to Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and Captain in the British Army. The rank may be distinguished by two sleeve stripes and two stripes on the coat shoulder straps.
Ground testing and taxi trials took place over the following two weeks, and on 6 November 1935, the prototype took to the air for the first time at the hands of Hawker's chief test pilot, Flight Lieutenant (later Group Captain) P.W.S. Bulman.
  
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