Wg Cdr P K Raveendran was a young under-trainee flight engineer on a VIP flight to…
Category: The Last Quarter: 1972-99
God’s Gift to Women
A young Canberra jock in a much decorated and revered squadron is faced with an emergency…
Air Marshal , Vice Chief of Air Staff & Retirement
During the 1971 war, he was the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Maritime Air Operations in Bombay…
Frozen, mid-flight : A Tribute to Late Flight Cadet MJS Bains SC
When I tell people that I once flew the MiG-21 fighter, they instinctively raise their eyebrows…
Saving the Chetaks of the IAF
This is a very personal story of my involvement with flight safety, eight years after retiring…
A Tale of two hydraulic systems
Wg Cdr KS Suresh VrC (Retd) describes an unusual situation and how a Jaguar aircraft was…
Raising the SuryaKirans
This article is based on open sources but has obviously benefited from interactions with Group…
Aviation Photography
Thirty three years of service and more than eleven thousand hours of flying, fortunately accident/incidence free:…
The Vampire’s Last Flight
De Havilland Vampire FB.52 Serial No. IB-1638 at its present resting place. My log book…
Dead Stick Landing in a Canberra
Looking back at flying the Canberra – and the tale of a close shave on one…