Search results

On night combat missions, the fighter aircraft do not switch on their regular high visibility position lights (on wing tips) and anti collision lights (the bright red strobe) to maintain stealthiness. However since they still need to maintain close formation during ingress/egress, the pilots...

All aerobatic teams adjust their formations and maneuvers from a single vantage point, typically termed Airshow center. To ensure the formations look symmetrical from that vantage point, they even adjust their spacing so that from other vantage points they may appear out of place but from the...

Engineering Wing?

A pen and ink rendition of A. Mateen’s action shot.

Are GDPs being trained to operate these or are the operators being treated at par with GDPs? In first glance their wings appear to be the same as GDPs whereas Turkish training officers’ wings appear to be distinct as to mark them as drone operators. If these are indeed GDPs, are these grounded...

This is not Mushaf but 3rd Main Jet Base at Konya, Turkey and this picture is from one of the Anatolian Eagle exercises

A unique camo for T-37

A rare bird. PAF’s deHaviland Devon C Mk.2 on its delivery flight at Nicosia in 1953

Probably pre-delivery picture F-16A 84704 29 Feb 1984 at Shaw AFB, SC

There was a reorg in Engg branch to combine Aerospace, Avionics, Logistics and MT paths. This resulted in some seniority adjustments so that could be a reason. Also the perennial GDP on top command structure even for purely engineering setups also results in some friction.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/us-pakistan-f-16-sale-assistance-donald-lu-india-china-lac-ukraine-russia-1998352-2022-09-09

Yes I sent you an email

Funny you mention that. Let me know how to message you.

I am just an amateur. However above is my artwork on display at the PAF Academy in one of the conference rooms.

Yes two reasons, the wing sweep on port wing should have been higher (in ink medium I could not fix that) and the vapor cloud due to high g is eroding the visual boundary between wing and horizontal stab. Mostly my fault for not catching the error earlier.

I think W/C Amir Maqsood maybe earlier than him. He shot down Mig-21 from a F-86. Then went on to CAE to graduate at the top of his majors. Don’t know why retired early.

Must be. The numbers quoted amount to about 120 hrs per year per pilot. That’s 6-7 sorties probably per month, minimum to maintain currency. Simulator hours helps to maintain proficiency in a cost effective manner. Obviously it is an average over the entire force, some senior pilots may only be...

During Cold War this was a major threat at the front of planners minds. Try reading up on Zero Length Launch attempts.

By the time China will reach there, ASML has further tricks up their sleeve like NA EUV. Plus it’s not just the EUV machine, there are other collaborators involved like masking chemicals from Germany. They would like to keep China a generation behind in this technology.