Images - Pakistan Air Force in the Mirror of History.

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PAF DHC-2 Beaver

 

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Firing 60 Ibs rocket, PAF Fury

 

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2nd guy, from left, MM ALAM !!

 

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He passed away on 18th March 2013

 

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BRISTOL BRIGAND...(1948-1950)
Bristol Brigand was a British anti-shipping/ground attack/dive bomber/attack aircraft developed as a replacement for the Beaufighter.

Crewed by three personal; the aircraft could carry 907 kg bomb load in an internal bomb bay to max radius of 3380 km .
.Two delivered.

 

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B-56 (IL-28/HARBIN H-5) (1966-1969)

The Ilyushin IL-28 is a jet bomber aircraft, Harbin H-5 (to equip 1 squadron) were delivered to Pakistan Air Force during early 1970s and were known as B-56 bombers.

 

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December 1956 At the end of the Melbourne Olympic Games, three Pakistan Air Force Freighter Mk.31s troop transporters were flown to Melbourne to collect the competing Pakistani athletes.

Inbound, the aircraft flew from Darwin direct to Adelaide for a night stop. On the last leg to Melbourne one Bristol reported a rough running engine and all three diverted to nearby Nhill Vic. While taxying to park, a Bristols' main wheel broke through the old RAAF wartime tarmac.

Local farmers tractors would not have had the traction to pull the heavy aircraft free, so Australian Charles Miller, who had hitched a ride from Darwin, got a lift into town. He persuaded the Shire Office to send out the town grader,

 

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Pilots from No. 14 Squadron based in East Pakistan walking to their F-86F Sabres.

 

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F-6 landing at Quetta Base.

 

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