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Old soldiers look after old comrades : P D Jeyasingh

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Category: The Bangladesh War 1971
Last Updated: Wednesday, 26 December 2018 13:58
Written by K S Nair
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Air Cmde PD 'Jeya' Jeyasingh 10923 F(N) passed away at 2330 hrs on 18 Oct 2018 at the Command Hospital Air Force Bangalore. He was admitted on 05 October after being diagnosed with pneumonia and other complications.  He was veteran of the 1971 war, who flew on bombing sorties with the Canberra bombers.  He was also known as an old comrade who refuses to let the nation forget about his comrades.  K S Nair writes about the annual commemoration that  Air Commodore Jeyasingh started - and which continues today even in his absence.  

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Ejected over No Man's Land!

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Category: The Bangladesh War 1971
Last Updated: Saturday, 22 December 2018 16:40
Written by Gp Capt Gurdeep Singh (Retd)
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Gp Capt Gurdeep Singh Samra 8695 F(P)  was a young Flight Lieutenant with No.101 Squadron operating from Adampur. He narrates the harrowing tale of ejecting over No-Mans land in the Chamb sector - and enduring severe injuries. He would later be rescued by Indian Army troops and underwent a full recovery back to flying fit status for a fruitful and rewarding career in the IAF.

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A belly landing in a Gnat!

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Category: The Last Quarter: 1972-99
Last Updated: Sunday, 25 November 2018 18:14
Written by Anchit Gupta
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Landing a jet fighter on its belly is not a task for the faint hearted.   This is the story of one young pilot who walked away from one - and the story of an aircraft that refused to go to the scrapyard.  

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The view from Tezpur

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Category: The Indo-China War 1962
Last Updated: Monday, 12 November 2018 01:15
Written by Air Marshal Y V Malse
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In October 1962, Air Commodore Y V Malse (1616 GD(P)) was with the National Defence College when he got urgent instructions to go to Eastern Air Command HQ as Air HQ's Special Liason officer.  The Indo-China war had broken out at that time. His observations from that era are narrated here in an oral interview from 2003. 

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Burn the Toofanis! - a story from 1962

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Category: The Indo-China War 1962
Last Updated: Monday, 05 November 2018 17:41
Written by Anchit Gupta
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How the Indian Air Force came close to destroying eight of its own Jet fighters during the 1962 war. The first ever attempted "Scorched Earth" order in history.  Based on the recollections of Air Marshal Trilochan Singh.  

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The Errand Boy

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Category: The Last Quarter: 1972-99
Last Updated: Friday, 31 August 2018 04:26
Written by Gp Capt Johnson Chacko
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 In the olden days - there was no internet through which you can email a Powerpoint presentation - but there were some magnificient Canberra bombers to act as a courier to deliver that most important presentation....as one pilot found out... 

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The Track

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Category: The Siachen Glacier
Last Updated: Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:30
Written by Air Vice Marshal M Bahadur
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Moved by the  plight of a group of stranded soldiers on the Amar Post, the CO of a HU decides in haste to undertake a sortie in bad visibility.. and mid way into the sortie, starts regretting it.  Its the ubiquitous presence of 'The Track' that helps overcome the dis-orientation and danger.  

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Obituary - Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif (1923-2018)

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Category: Tributes
Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 May 2018 04:19
Written by Webmaster
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Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif (IND/1804 GD(P)), former Chief of Air Staff and WW2 Veteran has passed away in Hyderabad on 30th April 2018. His death marks just about six months since he lost his wife, Mrs Bilkees Latif.  ACM Latif has been unwell the past year .  And his passing away less than an year of losing the Marshal of the Air Force is a double blow to the IAF fraternity. 

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The first landing at Nyoma

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Category: The Indo-China War 1962
Last Updated: Sunday, 06 January 2019 17:36
Written by Webmaster
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 The first landing at Nyoma was ostensibly carried out by an An-32 in 2009,  but lost among the records are the details of a flight carried out 47 years later - Now a photograph has surfaced proving the first landing in 1962. 

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