{{Short description|Royal Air Force Air-Vice Marshal (1919-1997)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person |name=Michael Lyne |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date=23 March 1919 |birth_place= |death_date=21 December 1997 |death_place= |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Air Force |service_years= 1935–1970 |rank= Air Vice Marshal |unit= |commands=No. 54 Squadron<br />RAF Wildenrath<br />Royal Air Force College Cranwell<br />No. 23 Group |battles= Second World War |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath<br />Air Force Cross & Two Bars |relations= |other_work= }} Air Vice Marshal '''Michael Dillon Lyne''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|AFC2}} (23 March 1919 – 21 December 1997) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
==RAF career== Lyne was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 29 July 1939.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34687|page=6352|date=19 September 1939}}</ref> 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.<ref name=air>{{cite web|url=https://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Lyne_MD.htm|title=Air Vice Marshal M.D. Lyne|publisher=Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation|accessdate=28 June 2020}}</ref>
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.<ref name=air/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Royal%20Air%20Force%20Senior%20Appointments.pdf|title=Senior RAF appointments|accessdate=28 June 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref name=air/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lyne, Michael}} Category:1919 births Category:1997 deaths Category:Academics of the Royal College of Defence Studies Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Category:Royal Air Force air vice-marshals Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath Category:Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)