HAL Tejas Program - 2018 Update
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 March 2019 05:06
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With a Damaged Tail Plane over DZ at Tangail
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- Category: The Bangladesh War 1971
- Last Updated: Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:31
- Written by Gp Capt Patri Jaya Rao
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Group Captain Patri Jayarao (7708 F(P)) , a Transport veteran of the 1971 war was commissioned on 28 Oct 1963 as part of the 85 Pilot's Course. For the first time he reveals an incident that occurred during the Tangail Para drop that could have had dire consequences.
The view from Tezpur
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- Category: The Indo-China War 1962
- Last Updated: Monday, 12 November 2018 01:15
- Written by Air Marshal Y V Malse
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In October 1962, Air Commodore Y V Malse (1616 GD(P)) was with the National Defence College when he got urgent instructions to go to Eastern Air Command HQ as Air HQ's Special Liason officer. The Indo-China war had broken out at that time. His observations from that era are narrated here in an oral interview from 2003.
Burn the Toofanis! - a story from 1962
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- Category: The Indo-China War 1962
- Last Updated: Monday, 28 January 2019 01:00
- Written by Anchit Gupta
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How the Indian Air Force came close to destroying eight of its own Jet fighters during the 1962 war. The first ever attempted "Scorched Earth" order in history. Based on the recollections of Air Marshal Trilochan Singh.
The Errand Boy
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- Category: The Last Quarter: 1972-99
- Last Updated: Friday, 31 August 2018 04:26
- Written by Gp Capt Johnson Chacko
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In the olden days - there was no internet through which you can email a Powerpoint presentation - but there were some magnificient Canberra bombers to act as a courier to deliver that most important presentation....as one pilot found out...
The Track
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- Category: The Siachen Glacier
- Last Updated: Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:30
- Written by Air Vice Marshal M Bahadur
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Moved by the plight of a group of stranded soldiers on the Amar Post, the CO of a HU decides in haste to undertake a sortie in bad visibility.. and mid way into the sortie, starts regretting it. Its the ubiquitous presence of 'The Track' that helps overcome the dis-orientation and danger.
Obituary - Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif (1923-2018)
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- Category: Tributes
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 May 2018 04:19
- Written by Webmaster
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Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif (IND/1804 GD(P)), former Chief of Air Staff and WW2 Veteran has passed away in Hyderabad on 30th April 2018. His death marks just about six months since he lost his wife, Mrs Bilkees Latif. ACM Latif has been unwell the past year . And his passing away less than an year of losing the Marshal of the Air Force is a double blow to the IAF fraternity.
The first landing at Nyoma
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- Category: The Indo-China War 1962
- Last Updated: Sunday, 06 January 2019 17:36
- Written by Webmaster
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The first landing at Nyoma was ostensibly carried out by an An-32 in 2009, but lost among the records are the details of a flight carried out 47 years later - Now a photograph has surfaced proving the first landing in 1962.
The Pushpaka's last flight - The untold story of 4th Nov 1977
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- Category: The Last Quarter: 1972-99
- Last Updated: Sunday, 11 March 2018 01:58
- Written by Wg Cdr P K Raveendran SC
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Wg Cdr P K Raveendran was a young under-trainee flight engineer on a VIP flight to Jorhat in November 1977 when tragedy struck. The miraculous survival story of the Prime Minister of India, Shri Morarji Desai was tempered by the tragic loss of the Flight Crew. The author recollects the events surrounding the flight, the crash and subsequent rescue effort - and as a post script - his journey to the crash site forty years later!.
First MiG-23BN fighter landing at Leh
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- Category: The Siachen Glacier
- Last Updated: Sunday, 23 June 2019 03:57
- Written by Air Marshal A D Joshi PVSM VM M-in-D
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With the escalation of the Siachen operations in 1984, Contingency plans were developed to utilise high performance fighter aircraft from Leh airfield as and when needed. Air Marshal A D Joshi narrates the first landing of the MiG-23BN at Leh airport - The planning and training for this event was no simple matter, as this narration will make it evident.
Article updated with two new photos!
Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh (1919-2017)
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- Category: Tributes
- Last Updated: Sunday, 17 September 2017 04:49
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Its an end of an era - Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh, the only five star rank officer in the IAF, a legendary and much beloved name in the Air Force Fraternity is no more. He was the Air Chief during the critical 1965 India-Pakistan war at a young age of 46. He passed away yesterday (16th September 2017) in New Delhi. A statement from the Ministry of Defence said he was admitted to the hospital on Saturday morning following a cardiac arrest, and breathed his last at 7.47 PM. Prior to his demise he was one of the last surviving officers of the IAF who had trained at RAF Cranwell, and also one of the last surviving DFC awardees of the IAF.