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Wing Commander Lanky Ahmad passed away on October 12, 2004 at Lahore, Pakistan where he was born in 1924 and is buried in the Pakistan Air Force graveyard located just before the landing strip of the Lahore International Airport runway.

  • The Author   
  • Foreword
  • Chapter-1 1945-95 Fifty Years --- A Long Inning  
  • Chapter-2 August, 1947 -- Holocaust in the Eastern Punjab
  • Chapter-3 September, 1947 -- Pakistan's Share of Aircraft from Undivided India
  • Chapter-4 January, 1948 -- First Graduation Parade at Risalpur and Subsequent Visit of Quaid-e-Azam
  • Chapter-5 February, 1948 -- First Fatal Air-Crash at Gilgit
  • Picture Gallery
  • Chapter-6 July, 1948 -- Quaid-e-Azam's Last Flight to Quetta 
  • Chapter-7 March, 1949 -- V.I.P. Flight to Miran Shah
  • Chapter-8 November, 1949 -- Visit to Taj Mahal
  • Chapter-9  May, 1950 -- Re-burial of General Raza Shah of Iran 
  • Chapter-10   1949 to 1951 -- Transport Flying in Kashmir Operations
  • Chapter-11 February, 1951 -- Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case
  • Chapter-12 August, 1951 -- Crash Landing of a Halifax Bomber
  • Chapter-13 October, 1951 -- Assassination of the Quaid-e-Millat
  • Chapter-14 December, 1951 -- Fateful Ferry Flight of Three Tempests
  • Chapter-15  1950-52 -- V.I.P. Pilot to the C-in-Cs of the Air Force and Army
  • Chapter-16 February, 1952 -- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Pakistan 
  • Chapter-17 June to August, 1952 -- Cross Country Trip to Australia And New Zealand
  • Chapter-18  February to March, 1955 -- State Visits by President Bayar of Turkey and King Hussein of Jordan
  • Chapter-19  April, 1955 -- Visit by President Natsir of Egypt and the Bandung Conference
  • Chapter-20 June, 1955 -- Signing of the Baghdad Pact
  • Chapter-21 November, 1957 -- President Iskander Mirza's State Visit to Spain and Portugal
  • Picture Gallery
  • Chapter-22 June, 1964 -- An Encounter with Arnold Palmer
  • Chapter-23 August, 1965 -- Forced Landing at a Paddy-Field in East Pakistan
  • Chapter-24 March, 1969 -- Pierre Cardin, the Designer of the P.I.A. Air Hostess Uniform
  • Chapter-25  1961-1968 -- Short Notes on a few V.I.Ps. Visits to Pakistan
  • Picture Gallery
  • Appendix A Remains of the Past
  • Appendix B One who Flew for the World's Elite
  • Appendix C To K-2!