After his flying accident in a Spitfire in WW2, which kept him from flying for some…
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The Westland Lysander – The IAF’s first monoplane bomber
The Westland Lysander equipped three of the four IAF Squadrons in its heyday - Indian pilots…
220 Squadron, IAF – Unsung warriors of 1965
The events of September 1st, 1965 are seared into the minds of every Air Force veteran…
Air Marshal Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi
This is a short summary of the career of Air Marshal Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi (IND/1592). It…
Lysanders to Hurricanes : Air Commodore H S Ratnagar
When No.1 Squadron, Indian Air Force went into operations in February 1942 against the Japanese in…
Chapter 9: Ceasefire and after
Ever since the hostilities, the UN Security Council had been trying hard to end the…
Chapter 2: Preliminaries – The line up and Rann of Kutch
Following the defeat in the China war, the Indian Govt. gave a free hand for the…
They did it again! The IAF lands at DBO!
The IAF returns to Daulet Beg Oldi - after more than forty years - This is the…
An airman’s war in Burma – Wg Cdr Hoshang K Patel
A conversation with retired Wing Commander Hoshang K Patel in 2002 was what set us off…
The Temperamental Tempest
A brief history of the IAF’s first true Fighter Bomber - the Hawker Tempest II. “And…