a flight for delhi he pointed to the four engines of the super constellation and exclaimed now that is what i call a safe aeroplane trained by hyderabads own pilots along with british officers cadets of the very first batch passing out from the osmania university made such a strong impression on the recruiting board that a majority of them were recommended for a commission in the air force despite being named regional director of indian airlines pm resigned and opted to revert to hyderabad state service in 1954 and was put in charge of the industrial trust fund and its operations praga tools and hyderabad asbestos which was eventually handed over to the birlas it was with pingle madhusudhan reddys encouragement that the last nizam mir osman ali khan first boarded an aircraft for a sortie over the city intended to check out his reactions to flying the writer is a well known heritage activist the airline continued to serve the ruler of hyderabad in his capacity as the rajparmukh subsequent to merger and one of the tasks personally supervised by pm was to ensure a daily supply of fresh water for the nizam during his sojourns away from hyderabad the acute need for pilots during the war resulted in the establishment of a center of the indian air training corps on the osmania university campus in 1945 aban pestonji chenoy the teenaged daughter of the nizams mint master became the first woman member of the hyderabad state aero club to qualify for an aviators license in 1938 a year in which 55 of the clubs 70 members were indians the association of begumpet with the air force has continued ever since