The Indian Gift Squadrons

  The Indian Gift SquadronsA look at RAF Squadrons gifted by Indian people POLLY SINGH Spitfire…

Indians over Flanders

Only four Indians are definitively known to have been military aviators in World War One. They…

The Indian Air Force in Iraq

One of the lesser known episodes of the IAF's involvement with foreign air forces was its…

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…

Jodhpur and the 1965 War

Jodhpur was the most bombed Indian City of the Indo-Pak 1965 war. More than two hundred…

The Westland Lysander – The IAF’s first monoplane bomber

The Westland Lysander equipped three of the four IAF Squadrons in its heyday - Indian pilots…

The Multi-role Fleet (or Multi-billions down the Ganga)

The MRCA saga – and its origins In the last couple of decades or a little…

How I was (almost) Court-Martialled

Air Marshal Raghavendran writes this article covering some eventful times as a Flying Instructor, with unintended…

Memoirs of an IAF Technical Signals Officer – 2

PART TWO:  SERVICE IN THE INDIAN AIR FORCE Initial Air Force Training – 1950 to 1951 …

We are getting Spitfires! – Gp Capt George Philip

 This is the second part of the recollections of Gp Capt CGI Philip. The first part…