 Promoted to temporary flight lieutenant on 1 August 1943 , McAloney was sent to the Directorate of Technical Services from November as the specialist officer on American and gas turbine jet engines . The following November , he was dispatched to Dutch New Guinea to rectify issues being experienced with Pratt & Whitney engines in operations by aircraft of the 1st Tactical Air Force . He returned to Australia and his position with Technical Services in December , and saw out the remainder of the war in this post . McAloney decided he wanted to remain in the Air Force on the cessation of hostilities , and subsequently sought a permanent commission in the post @-@ war RAAF . Having continued on a short @-@ service commission in the meantime , his application was ultimately approved in September 1948 and he was granted the substantive rank of flight lieutenant . His younger brother , Robert Simpson McAloney , also saw service with the RAAF in the Second World War . He had enlisted in late 1937 and rose to the rank of warrant officer before his discharge in 1946 , his final posting being to No. 1 Communication Unit . 
