Mahmoud Eskandari (1329–1388) was a lieutenant colonel and fighter pilot of the Air Force. He was continuously present in the Homeland-Iraq war and was an effective participant in three important operations, including the Khorramshahr liberation operation, the H3 operation, and the Baghdad operation. He is mentioned as one of the most outstanding pilots of the Persian Air Force. Eskandari flew a F-4 Phantom II as a pilot during the Homeland-Iraq war.
They call him the Phantom Pilot — not because he’s a ghost, but because he’s a presence that lingers long after the engines have cooled. Every runway, every cockpit, every stretch of open sky seems to remember him. He was once a master of the air — a pilot who lived between clouds and silence, where control and chaos dance together in thin oxygen. To fly was not his job; it was his language. Every maneuver spoke of freedom, precision, and trust in something invisible yet constant — the lift beneath the wings.
