| Size: 1.5ft x 5ft Oil | Date: 1947 |
Artwork Located:
Chief of the Air Staff's Conference Room
Description:
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.
Chief of the Air Staff's Conference Room
Description:
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.
| Size: 2ft x 3ft Oil | Date: 22-Sep-47 |
Artwork Located:
PAF Academy Risalpur
Description:
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.
PAF Academy Risalpur
Description:
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.
| Size: 2ft x 3ft Oil | Date: Febuary 1952 |
Artwork Located:
Office of Base Commander Lahore
Description:
For twenty-five years the PAFs new pilots learned to fly in various models of the Harvard trainer. Shown here is one of the Harvards and its starting battery cart, against the early post-Independence setting of the PAF's Flying Training School at Risalpur, the forerunner of the modem Air Academy of today.
Office of Base Commander Lahore
Description:
For twenty-five years the PAFs new pilots learned to fly in various models of the Harvard trainer. Shown here is one of the Harvards and its starting battery cart, against the early post-Independence setting of the PAF's Flying Training School at Risalpur, the forerunner of the modem Air Academy of today.
| Size: 2ft x 3ft Oil | Date: Mar-48 |
Artwork Located:
Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Staff Operations
Description:
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.
Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Staff Operations
Description:
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.
| Size: 2ft x 3ft Oil | Date: 4-Nov-48 |
Artwork Located:
PAF Academy Risalpur
Description:
On 4 November 1948, a PAF Dakota, returning after an air supply paradrop near Skardu, ran into two Indian Air Force Tempests patrolling the area. When Flying Officer M A Dogar, the Dakota's pilot, ignored orders by the fighters to accompany them to the nearest Indian airfield, the Dakota was attacked. The cannon fire killed a crew member, Naik Muhammad Din and wounded Flying Officer jagjivan, the navigator. But the courageous Dogar refused to give- in. Handling the aircraft with great skill, he continued to take evasive action till he managed to enter the narrow mouth of the valley below. He flew down to treetop height and flying along the twisting river escaped to safety. In the painting the Dakota, which has successfully evaded the Tempest leader and is threatened by his No 2 in the distance, is commencing another evasive manoeuvre.
Flying Officer Dogar was later decorated by Khawaja Nazimuddin, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, with the gallantry award of Sitara-i-jurat, the first to be received by an officer of the Pakistan Air Force.
PAF Academy Risalpur
Description:
On 4 November 1948, a PAF Dakota, returning after an air supply paradrop near Skardu, ran into two Indian Air Force Tempests patrolling the area. When Flying Officer M A Dogar, the Dakota's pilot, ignored orders by the fighters to accompany them to the nearest Indian airfield, the Dakota was attacked. The cannon fire killed a crew member, Naik Muhammad Din and wounded Flying Officer jagjivan, the navigator. But the courageous Dogar refused to give- in. Handling the aircraft with great skill, he continued to take evasive action till he managed to enter the narrow mouth of the valley below. He flew down to treetop height and flying along the twisting river escaped to safety. In the painting the Dakota, which has successfully evaded the Tempest leader and is threatened by his No 2 in the distance, is commencing another evasive manoeuvre.
Flying Officer Dogar was later decorated by Khawaja Nazimuddin, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, with the gallantry award of Sitara-i-jurat, the first to be received by an officer of the Pakistan Air Force.
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