Michael Lyne

Air Vice Marshal Michael Dillon Lyne, CB, AFC & Two Bars (23 March 1919 – 21 December 1997) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Michael Lyne
Born	23 March 1919
Died	21 December 1997
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Years of service	1935–1970
Rank	Air Vice Marshal
Commands	No. 54 Squadron RAF Wildenrath Royal Air Force College Cranwell No. 23 Group
Battles / wars	Second World War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Air Force Cross & Two Bars

RAF career

Lyne was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 29 July 1939.^[1] He served in the Second World War as officer commanding the Air Gunnery School in Egypt and on the Air Staff at Headquarters RAF Mediterranean and Middle East.^[2]

After the war he became officer commanding, No. 54 Squadron in 1946, chief flying instructor at the RAF Flying College at Manby in 1954 and officer commanding, RAF Wildenrath in 1958.^[2] He went on to be air attaché in Moscow in 1961, commandant of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1963 and Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 Group in 1965.^[3] After that he became senior member of the RAF Directing Staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1968 and Director-General of RAF Training in 1970 before retiring in 1971.^[2]