Captain Karimuddin Ahmed Shah AUX30032 served in the Auxilliary Air Force for ten years form 1956-1966. He…
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.
Video – Aiming High. Training in 1942
A rare documentary film made by V Shantaram about the Indian Air Force in 1942. The…
Video : A Navigator’s Journey – Gp Capt Conrad Dalton VM
Gp Capt Conrad Dalton 12430 GD(N) , Indian Air Force, is a decorated veteran navigator who flew on…
Sukhoi Strike Missions during the War
An interview with late Air Vice Marshal Madhabendra Banerji (4898). On the 20th January 2019, Anchit Gupta…
The day the sky fell down (in Gwalior)
Back in the year 1989, a leading newspaper published a sensational story about a Hangar Collapse…
Jodhpur and the 1965 War
Jodhpur was the most bombed Indian City of the Indo-Pak 1965 war. More than two hundred…
The Atlantique Shoot Down – 20 Years Since
Group Captain V S Sharma 14490 ADM (Retd) was the Fighter Controller at Naliya on 10th…
Jugaad with the Foxbats
Air Marshal Vinod Kumar "Jimmy" Bhatia, PVSM AVSM VrC Bar , 6497 F(P) was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief…
Jaisalmer Diary – The story of 14 C&MU
This is an account of the operations at 14 C&MU Jaisalmer. The IAF's victory at Longewala…
Cheetah Resurrection at 19500 feet
AVM Manmohan Bahadur writes about a recovery operation at 19,500 feet that saved a valuable Cheetah…