The Airlift that saved Kashmir

Ranjeet Bhatia Prologue In this article, I aim to bring forth and highlight the adverse conditions…

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…

Recovery of UN103 : Mission Accomplished

The Force landing 07 May 2000 was another eventful day in the still nascent stay of…

Bob or Pete – the debate over a nickname..

After the publication of  the article on Wg Cdr Padmanabha Gautam’s last flight – a debate…

A legend’s last flight

Padmanabha Gautam was born in Madras on 23 Jul 1933. He joined the IAF on 01…

Sqn Ldr. Hemango Nath Chaudhuri

Sqn Ldr. Hemango Nath Chaudhuri – 1st Commanding Officer of 7 Squadron 1565 GD (P) Wing…

A Saga Forged in War – History of 7 Squadron. Dec. 1942 to June 1945

  This article is dedicated to the memory of my illustrious father late GP Capt. KL…

1st April 1933 – Ninety Years ago!

We all know that No.1 Squadron's A Flight was formed at Drigh Road. But how did…

The first Gazette of India notification

From the Archives, Recently while working with Anchit Gupta, we discovered the original gazette notification for…

The Thunderbolts

The following write-up on the history of the Thunderbolts was scripted with help of Air Mshl…