Exceptional Courage : Flt Lt A W Barrett

Among the gallantry awards given to IAF personnel for the 1947-48 Operations, only one out of…

Courage & Devotion to Duty : A Chronicle of IAF’s Honours and Awards (1932-2008)

Reviewed by Group Captain Kapil Bhargava (Retd)

The Airlift that saved Kashmir

Ranjeet Bhatia Prologue In this article, I aim to bring forth and highlight the adverse conditions…

Pilot Officer Paljor Namgyal: The Crown Prince of Sikkim

by Tenzin C. Tashi, Sr Researcher, English Academic Section, NIT. On a small hillock within the…

Recovery of UN103 : Mission Accomplished

The Force landing 07 May 2000 was another eventful day in the still nascent stay of…

A legend’s last flight

Padmanabha Gautam was born in Madras on 23 Jul 1933. He joined the IAF on 01…

A Saga Forged in War – History of 7 Squadron. Dec. 1942 to June 1945

  This article is dedicated to the memory of my illustrious father late GP Capt. KL…

The National Cadet Corps and the IAF

In this research piece by Anchit Gupta , the author untangles the history of the Indian…

The Man behind the legend – Mehar Singh

Major General Syed Ali Hamid writes about the legendary tales he heard about 'Baba' Mehar Singh,…

MSN 521 : Air Battle over Chhamb – 10 December 1971

This contribution by Wg Cdr B C Karambaya, 10604 F(P)  was originally written as an appendix to…