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Wings Of Freedom A View From The Parade Venue

by S. Khalil|30 August 202330 August 2023|April 2021 Edition Articles, Articles

Marking an important moment that really changed our history, the Parade Day celebrations featured an armada of flying machines belonging to its armed forces. The focal point of the event was a salute to the nation by the new air...

Story of F-20 ‘Tigershark’ Trials by PAF Trying it Out

by S. Khalil|21 August 202321 August 2023|Articles, July 2021 Edition Articles

Easy to fly, a capable jet with a powerful time-tested engine, quick deployment capability from sitting on the ramp to being in the air in minutes, endorsed by the greatest of test pilots Chuck Yeager, all in all a neat...

The Tale Of An Unbelievable Feat Bombed to Atoms

by S. Khalil|15 August 202315 August 2023|Articles, Jan 2022 Edition Articles

One C-130 cargo plane carrying about 18, 000 lbs of bombs destined for a bridge. This was the initial test of the offensive against an enemy five times the size. Would it achieve its objective? The answer thundered over India...

Dubai Air Show 2021 Shaping The Suture Of Aerospace Industry

by S. Khalil|13 August 202313 August 2023|Articles, Jan 2022 Edition Articles

The Dubai Airshow has quickly grown to be an event of magnificent proportions. With attendance going into tens of thousands and deals being made worth billions of dollars, the airshow has established itself as a benchmark of international aviation cooperation....

Together We Train & Rise Ex ACES MEET 2021-2

by S. Khalil|13 August 202313 August 2023|Articles, Jan 2022 Edition Articles

ACES Meet is designed with the goal of enhancing capabilities, elevating combat expertise and increase cooperation and interoperability between participating air forces. Orchestrated by PAF ACE and attended by the air forces of Turkey, Uzbekistan and the UK, we bring...

PAF FLYPAST 2022

by Air Cdre (R) Muhammad Ali, SI(M)|02 August 202302 August 2023|Articles, July 2022 Edition Articles

Dragons Falcons And More... On 23 March, 2022, the J-10C Dragon became a household name. The Pakistan Day parade in the federal capital this year saw the grandest fly past ever, when ACM Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, Chief of the...

A Veteran Par Excellence

by S. Khalil|31 July 202331 July 2023|Articles, Spring 2023 Edition Articles

A Tribute to Sqn Ldr Ghani Akbar, SJ (Retd) Every fighter pilot remembers being deployed into combat, and how special that moment was. All his life, Ghani Akbar, wanted to be a flier. Being a fighter pilot was not just...

Game of Kings

by S. Khalil|26 July 202326 July 2023|Articles, Spring 2023 Edition Articles

Report on CAS Polo Cup-2022 PAF White defeated PAF Blue and bagged the winner’s trophy in an exciting final of the 31st Chief of the Air Staff Challenge Cup Polo Tournament with 5-1/2 to 5 goals. It was a remarkably...

From Wooden Skis to Winter Olympics & Beyond

by S. Khalil|24 July 202324 July 2023|Articles, January 2020 Edition Articles

With some of the highest peaks above 8,000 meters in the world that pierce into the horizon, Pakistan offers thousands of meters of vertiginous verticals that mountaineers, trekkers and skiers dream about. At the confluence of the Karakorum and the...

Wings of Glory

by S. Khalil|23 July 202325 July 2023|Articles, January 2020 Edition Articles

Wing Commander Nisar Nabi has airlifted personnel and taken over sized-cargo to places only the C-130 Hercules can get into. But not even 6,000 flying hours and experience had prepared him for his next mission - a photo session 7,000...

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