page_title: 8-Pass Charlie
section_title: Named by adversaries
hierarchical_section_title: 8-Pass Charlie / Named by adversaries
caption_attribution_description: English: Pakistan Air Force B-57s. This is the No 31 Wing, which received the new bombers in 1957. Taken over 50 years ago, thus the image is now in the public domain in Pakistan. Source:http://www.pakdef.info/pakmilitary/airforce/gallery/images/b57_03.jpg
context_page_description: 8-Pass Charlie was the codename of an unknown Pakistan Air Force B-57 bomber ace pilot who raided the Adampur airbase of the Indian Air Force in Indian Punjab a number of times during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 notably starting the series of raids on the base by a solo raid.
  He was named "8-Pass Charlie" by his impressed Indian adversaries at the Adampur base as he used to make eight passes, one for each bomb, on selected targets with improving efficiency instead of safely dropping all his bomb load and exiting. He is also known to have had expertise in disguising his attack run by confusing anti-aircraft gunners by cutting throttles before entering a dive.
context_section_description: The name was assigned to this unknown pilot by his impressed Indian adversaries at the Adampur base, and appears to be derived from his daring routine of making eight passes in bombing runs during every air raid over the alerted airbase to bomb selected targets with each 500 lb bomb in the moonlight, "and tried to carry out an effective attack each time", instead of dropping his entire bomb-load of 4,000 lbs during the first pass which would have allowed a safer exit for the aggressor aircraft over initial defences.
caption: PAF B-57s
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