An acknowledgment of a great and safe aviator. He was the unsung hero of PIA who is overlooked, a giant among dwarfs, with a vision beyond making dollars on a flight pattern. He came from Orient Airways and should be placed at the same level as the first MD of PIA, Ispahani for his pioneering…
Turkey has its flying legend in the form of Sabiha Gökçen, a young woman who was “found” by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk himself, but whose origins remain obscure. Some claim she was a Turkish orphan of the Great War, others that she was an Armenian orphan. Ataturk is said to have adopted her on one…
Farther, faster, higher For German women, it was not easy to even attempt record flights during the years between the Wars. Under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, Germany was prohibited from having aircraft that might conceivably be employed for military purposes. Fliers were generally restricted to gliders or small sport planes, and they were…
With the end of World War I, peacetime aviation seemed poised for an exhilarating leap forward. The great challenge – and the great obstacle – that dominated the thinking of the men who built airplanes and those who flew them was the Atlantic Ocean. Like some menacing beast from an ancient myth, it lay in…
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