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RE-ORGANISATION AND EXPANSION: 1965 - 1971
Sukhoi-7 fighter bombers (referred to as Type S-22) started equipping IAF squadrons in the late sixties.
• The One man DASI and DFCL School
by Air Marshal S Raghavendran PVSM AVSM (Retd)
| On deputation to Iraq as an instructor |
• The First Gnat Squadron
Commander by Air Marshal S Raghavendran PVSM AVSM (Retd)
| Commanding No.23 Squadron and Converting to Gnats |
• The Man who flew too much - I a B R Exclusive
| The flying career of Air Marshal Prithi Singh PVSM AVSM VM Bar ADC |
• Avro 748 in India - four decades on by Group Captain Kapil Bhargava VM (Retd)
| Test Flight of the HS748 and subseqent VIP encounters |
• The best years of my life by Duncan M Cruickshank
| Service in the Indian Air Force from 1955-1969 |
• The day I (almost) missed going to Iraq by Air Marshal S Raghavendran PVSM AVSM (Retd)
| On deputation to Iraq as an instructor |
• The day I (almost) became Sqn Cdr for the third time by Air Marshal S Raghavendran PVSM AVSM (Retd)
| OC Flying , Bareilly to Station Commander |
• Sqn Ldr PC Chopra Photos - COO Hashimara and 101 Squadron
| Personal photo albums of Sqn Ldr Pramod Chandra Chopra after the 65 War |
• The Indian Air Force as an Aircraft Manufacturer by Group Captain Kapil Bhargava VM (Retd)
| An insight into the little known foray of the IAF in manufacturing aircraft on its own. |
| A first hand account of the hairraising journeys into Ladakh |
• Messerschmitt's HA-300 and its Indian connection by Group Captain Kapil Bhargava VM (Retd)
| A first hand account of test flying the HA-300 in Egypt |
• Eyewitness to the Six Day War by Group Captain Kapil Bhargava VM (Retd)
| A first hand account of an Indian Test Pilot caught in the Six Day Arab Israeli War of 1967 |
• No.27 Squadron - A Photo Album by Flight Lieutenant Samar Bikram Shah, VrC, VM. (Retd)
| A Collection of photographs of No.27 Squadron from Flight Lieutenant Samar Bikram Shah's Personal Collection |
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