Muhammad Mahmood Alam best known as M. M. Alam and affectionately nicknamed Little Dragon and Peanut Alam, was a Pakistani flying ace, war hero, and a former one-star rank officer in the Pakistan Air
Alam poses with his F-86 Sabre, 1965
Photograph taken from the gun camera of Squadron Leader MM Alam shows an IAF Hunter aircraft plummeting to the ground in flames after its wing tanks ruptured following a brief burst of 0.5-inch Browning machine-gun fire by Sqn Ldr Alam, 1965.
Field Marshal Ayub Khan pins the Sitara-i-Jurat on Squadron Leader MM Alam, 1966
The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was designed to take advan
MM Alam
…over Sargodha during the Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965 on 7 September, Squadron Leader Alam set a world combat record of shooting down five Indian Hawker Hunters with his F-86 Sabre in less than a minute which earned him the designation of 'ace in a day', making him the only known jet pilot to achieve such a…
Two-seat Hunter T.7 at Shuttleworth Military airshow 2013
RAF Hunters of the Black Arrows performing aerobatics at Farnborough Airshow, 1960
The prototype Hunter WB188, modified to Mark 3 standard, displayed in its world speed record colours in 1976.
"Miss Demeanour" – a privately owned Hawker Hunter F.58A, 2007.