Wings of Duty

Wings of Duty — Page 20

Syed Muhammad Ahmad 20 repaired. During my short stay, I spent a few days at the home of Seth Abdullah in Hyderabad Deccan whose hospitality, piety and goodness impressed me deeply. By chance, certain faculty members of Talimul- Islam College in Qadian were, at the time, being trained at the RAF Technical Training School (TTS/ NTTS) in Hyderabad Deccan at the suggestion of Sahibzada Mirza Nasir Ahmad ra. They included Chaudhry Muhammad Ali who was later promoted to Professor of Psychology at TI College, Fazal Ahmad who went on to become the inspector general in the Indian Police Service and possibly Master Fazaldad, later a senior staff member at TI College. I met with them when I went to the RAF TTS to get help in fixing the broken rudder. Once my plane was repaired, I flew from Hakimpet to Bombay’s Santa Cruz Airport where I learnt that the Navy had subdued the mutiny and our squadron returned to its base in Trichinopoly. I was reminded of this in 2009 when I received a book published by the British company which made the Spitfire. The book listed every Spitfire which had ever been involved in an accident, regardless of its model or the extent of damage it had received. I learnt that the same airplane whose rudder had been