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Aviator Ranks and Insignia

OK, this is what I have come up with on the NCO pilots of the German Naval Air Service: It seems that Flugmaat was an entry rank, conferred by the German Naval Air Service. I have a photograph of an original Flugmaat sleeve patch which will do nicely. Above Flugmaat it looks as though the ranks from Oberflugmaat to Oberflugmeister had breast pins worn in conjunction with their Flugmaat patch, still worn on the upper sleeve. I'm still looking for those. So far the only reference I've come across is in Johan Ryheul's "KEKs and FOKKERSTAFFELS".
One difference between the floatplane/ seaplane pilots of the Naval air service and their landfeld (land based) brothers was the pilot's badge. At first sight I had assumed that their badges were the same. A closer look shows the difference beneath the eagle: for seaplane pilots there was a seascape but landfeld pilots had a stylised landscape.
 
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