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Flt Lt Lawrence Frederic Pereira, VrC

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Category: The Bangladesh War 1971
Last Updated: Saturday, 18 February 2017 15:17
Written by Webmaster
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 Lawrence Frederic Pereira 8678 F(P)  was a Forward Air Controller with an Armoured Brigade in the Shakargarh Sector during the 1971 War.  He lost his life in an enemy air attack and today lies at rest in Jalandhar.

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Hoshang Patel (1921-2017)

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Category: Tributes
Last Updated: Thursday, 26 January 2017 05:16
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With a heavy heart, we learnt about the passing away of Wing Commander Hoshang Patel of Bombay.  He passed away today 25th January 2017, at the age of 96.  A WW2 veteran airman and pilot who served in two tours in Burma, one of the few to do it as both an erk as well as a pilot.  Hoshang Sir was the one who gave the spark to the fire of WW2 research that this website has carried out over the years.

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Birender Singh Dhanoa

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Category: Chiefs of Air Staff
Last Updated: Saturday, 31 December 2016 22:13
Written by 31 Dec 2016
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Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa PVSM AVSM YSM VM ADC is the new Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force

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The Silent Sentinel at Padum, Zanskar

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Category: The New Millenium
Last Updated: Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:48
Written by Photos by Anupam Gupta
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A chance discussion with a local got a tourist to click photographs of an intriguing helicopter wreck in a remote part of Ladakh.    

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Buy : In Memoriam: The Fallen Air Warriors

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Category: Book Projects & Announcements
Last Updated: Tuesday, 08 August 2017 01:47
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Now available for purchase in the United States! Special Offer in US: $42.00 
(Shipping included)

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Panther Red One : The Sequel

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Category: Book Projects & Announcements
Last Updated: Tuesday, 30 May 2017 00:51
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The much awaited sequel to the delightful "Panther Red One: Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot". The author Air Marshal S Raghavendran is the retired Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force. In this sequel, he chronicles his career where the first book left off. Covering the staff and operational command appointments, the Air Marshal holds no punches in describing the disconnect between the government bureaucracy and the Defence procurement and planning wings.

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Indians over Flanders

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Category: The Pioneers of Flight
Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 November 2016 00:56
Written by K S Nair
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Only four Indians are definitively known to have been military aviators in World War One. They blazed a remarkable trail for the six hundred odd who took up that occupation in World War Two (including at least one Bollywood actor), and the three thousand-odd who serve in that role in India today.

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Ejecting from a Mystere IVa

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Category: War and Peace - 1962 -71
Last Updated: Sunday, 30 October 2016 16:37
Written by Video Channel
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On 8th March 1967, a young Flying Officer, with less than four years of service, found himself in a predicament over the skies of northern India when the aircraft's main gear did not deploy correctly.  Then Fg Offr David "Dadoo" Subaiya was faced with the choice of crash landing or trusting the SNCASO ejection seat of his Mystere IVa fighter bomber. This is his story in Video!

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Pilot Officer Phillipos - Accounts Branch Officer in WW2

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Category: Veterans Project - Interviews, Profiles and Memoirs
Last Updated: Saturday, 03 February 2018 18:24
Written by Wg Cdr A Phillipos
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Updated 03 February 2018: We regret to inform that Wg Cdr A Philipos passed away in Bengaluru on 31st January 2018. He was 101 years old.  Original: Wg Cdr A Phillipos  3033 GD(P) was commissioned as an Accounts Branch Officer in 1944.  He recently turned 100 years old and was felicitated by the Air Force Records Office in Bangalore. In this short article, he writes about his introduction to service life under the British.   

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Baptism by sparks, fire and bailout

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Category: War and Peace - 1962 -71
Last Updated: Wednesday, 13 September 2017 04:56
Written by Wg Cdr A K Gupta
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Wg Cdr A K "Lui" Gupta, 13072 F(P) joined the caterpillar club on his very second solo flight in a Vampire Jet fighter. This is the story of possibly the last bailout from a Vampire.

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Fighter Pilot

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 19:13
Written by Helen Doe
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Reviewed by Jagan Pillarisetti
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