Official and Unofficial Aviation Art

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A-5 tribute sketch by me!

 

[humza_313]

the sketch shows a fleeing IAF dassault mystere' ... it is being trailed by a PAF f-104 starfighter flown by flt lt Amjad Hussain khan. the lPAF pilot later fires a missle and misses. he fires a second one and scores a direct hit. but as he was very close to the mystere. both the planes collided.. the PAF pilot ejected but the IAF pilot was KIA!

 

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THE SKETCH SHOWS AND IMAGINARY INTERCEPTION OF A PAF F-6 WITH AN AN-12 CUB..! THESE WERE SOVIET NAVY'S ELINT A/C COVERED WITH CIVIL MARKINGS ..!

 

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A PAF F-7 BREAKS OUT

 

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T-37 TWEETY BIRD: T-37 Tweet, basic jet trainer aircraft of PAF Academy Risalpur.

 

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FIRST SOLO: The sketch shows a trainee aviation cadet of PAF Academy Risalpur taxing his T-37 aircraft for his first solo flight.

 

[Najam Khan]

A 22X28 inches wide Block52 sketch in my room. Any body know who to scan these large size sketches in one part?

I have a dozen of 22X28 inches and 15 11X28 inches wide sketches waiting to be properly scanned.

Here is its scanned version,scanning it 10 times and adjusting in Photoshop was nothing less than a jigsaw puzzle.

 

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SPITFIRE VIII: No 9 Squadron (after Independence becoming a Pakistani Unit) had converted onto the famous WW II Spitfire in 1945. It was powered by a Rolls Royce Merlin 66V 12-Cylinder liquid-cooled engine. Armed with 4 x 20 mm cannons, it could fly at a maximum speed of 404 mph. It flew in the Battle of Britain, in Africa and Asia during the War. No. 9 Squadron continued to fly this aircraft from August to December 1947.

 

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ZAFAR CHAUDHRY AND NILOFUR: JANUARY 1946 - OVER GWALIOR, INDIA: To keep their aircraft in top shape, it was a normal practice in the IAF fighter squadron to assign each plane to the care of a pilot. Flying Officer Zafar A Chaudhry (later to be one of the PAF's Air Chiefs) of No 7 Squadron proudly 'owned' RN-183, the Spitfire Mark XVI which he named "Nilofur", inspired by the beautiful Turkish princess who had married a son of the Nizam of Hyderabad.

 

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ASGHAR KHAN PILOTS A JET FIGHTER - 20 MAY 1946 - RAF WEST RAYNHAM, UK: During World War II, Squadron Leader M Asghar Khan - later the first Pakistani C-in-C of the PAF - commanded No 9 Squadron at the Burma front. While on the Fighter Leaders' Course in England before Independence, he became the first pilot from the subcontinent to fly a jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor Mark III, the only jet employed by the Allies during the last stages of the War.

 

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THE PAF ON AIR ALERT 1947: One of the first jobs of the newly formed Pakistan Air Force was to continue the policing of the North-West Frontier region. The painting shows a scramble by No 5 Squadron Tempest IIs from inside the historical Miran Shah Fort.

 

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TRAINER OF THE ACES: A Tiger Moth was the first primary trainer to take to the air from the newly-established PAF Flying Training School (now PAF Academy), Risalpur, a month after Pakistan came into existence. The painting shows Flight Lieutenant M Khyber Khan, the Flying Instructor and his student, Flight Cadet Akhtar, airborne on the morning of 22 September 1947 from Risalpur.

 

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VIKING: In 1947, a Vickers Viking joined the inventory of two Douglas Dakotas and two Harvards of the newly independent Pakistan's first communications flight at Mauripur (Masroor) airfield. The Viking was used exclusively for the travels of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first Governor General of Pakistan. The aircraft is now preserved in the PAF Museum in honoured memory of the Founder of the Nation.

 

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TEMPESTS ON AIR PATROL - THE FIRST KASHMIR WAR 1948: Tempest IN from 5 Squadron are shown patrolling in the northern area during the First Kashmir War. They are shown in the earliest camouflage, as they were received from India in 1947. The aircraft are still carrying the two victory stripes painted by the British after the Second World War.

 

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THE STATION COMMANDER INSPECTS THE FLIGHT LINES - MARCH 1948 - PESHAWAR: Wing Commander M A Rahman, the Commander of the RPAF Station Peshawar, takes a morning inspection round of the flight line. The World War Il style side car provided a convenient vehicle from which to supervise activities such as the loading of armaments shown here. The Hawker Tempest Mark 2 (red propeller spinner) belongs to the newly formed No 9 Squadron while the blue spinner Tempest is from No 5 Squadron.