Faisal, one of four children, grew up on military bases in Peshawar, Sargodha and Karachi, studying at air force schools.
Komarov joined the Soviet air force at the age of 15 and was educated in air force schools, becoming a pilot in 1949.
An air force pilots' school is located there.
The air force training school for noncommissioned officers had had its headquarters inside the palace since before World War II.
I had a very early, very heavy reel-to-reel video camera that I lugged all round the UK to American air force bases, to dancing schools, drama schools, French schools, German schools, boxing schools, American schools.
"The government can feel secure," said Antonio Berarducci, who teaches military strategy to majors and lieutenant colonels at the air force's war school.
Only the second woman to enter the air force test-pilot school in 1989, she admits to being terrified of rollercoasters yet has logged more than 6,280 hours of flying in 30 types of aircraft, including 540 hours (22 days) in space.
This new story, which eventually formed the basis for Rang De Basantis script, was influenced by Mehra's upbringing, youth and experiences over the years, including his desire to join the Indian Air Force while in school, as well as his recollections of listening to Independence Day speeches and watching patriotic films such as Mother India.
To ally with Iran in order to combat Isis is deeply ironic, since there is considerable evidence that the Syrian regime has been colluding with Isis: Assad's air force bombs civilians, schools, markets and hospitals without mercy but declined to attack Isis's massive headquarters in Raqqa until the Iraq crisis erupted.
He was an air force sergeant who went to night school as an adult to become a high school and community college teacher of US and "Afro American" history.
