A rookie Flying Officer with four years of service, flying transports gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to…
Category: History
History is the study of the past, it relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. History is about the truth, and it is about recording events and memories before they are consigned to be forgotten. Presented here in these sections is the History of the Indian Air Force. The unvarnished, un-revised version that is independent of jingoism and ultra-nationalism.
The curious case of the missing “Tiger One”
There are milestones in an officer's career that are etched in stone. The day you got…
MSN 521 : Air Battle over Chhamb – 10 December 1971
This contribution by Wg Cdr B C Karambaya, 10604 F(P) was originally written as an appendix to…
Battle of Chhamb 71 : Through the 6/5 Lenses of an FAC
This is the first person account of a young Pilot Officer caught in the thick of…
The first ferry of French fighters to Ambala
No, not THOSE French-made jet fighters that you are thinking of right now, but the very…
Special Heli Borne Ops – Sylhet and Meghna
The story of the Special Heli-Borne Operations of the 1971 war - as told by Sqn…
Fallen airmen in France and Belgium : Plt Offr RN Dastur and Fg Offr RC Dutta
An Indian Air Force senior officer, posted as an Air Attache to the Embassy of India…
Three Forced Landings in a Harvard
Captain Karimuddin Ahmed Shah AUX30032 served in the Auxilliary Air Force for ten years form 1956-1966. He…
Video – Aiming High. Training in 1942
A rare documentary film made by V Shantaram about the Indian Air Force in 1942. The…