General Sham(e)
Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but […]
February 2007
The Needless IJT Incident of February 8
If reports suggesting that the accident involving an indigenous Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) on February 8 at Yelahanka were caused by the pilot’s carelessness –
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Not just high-altitude chikki
Will an empowered and independent committee mandated with dissecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) be able to cure half a century’s legacy of
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Enter chopper pilot as air chief
God is not a fighter pilot. That is the punch line to an old joke in the Indian Air Force. That one line is today
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Test-flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet
As I crouched, foetus-like, on a sustained 7.5-G loop in a fighter at 9,000 feet, I knew the best was yet to come. My US
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