My Daddy Strongest

This blog is for dad. I'm trying to gather as many of the old Indian Air Force snaps that I can gather and put them in here. Snaps of people. People with stories. I'll leave the pictures of planes for the other guys.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Briefing Room

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From L to R: Shivadas , P Singh , Velankar(dad) , Dhillon & Shankar. Cir:1967 , 101 Squadron This is a great picture. Not only does it...
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Friday, September 29, 2006

Training days

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L-R : Flt Cadet sharma , Dad , suraj kumar . Details: NagpurFlying club, Ci 1963 This is a nice picture of dad at the Nagpur Flying club....
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Commission

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Commissioned into the Airforce by Gen J Choudhuri Details: Circa 13th March 1966, Dad got his commission on the 13th of March 1966. The pe...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Bina Topi Ka Photo

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Passing out picture of the 9th Entry batch, 1964, AFAC Details: Circa : May 1964, Location: AFAC Coimbatore This is an favorite old p...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Havard IV's

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A line up of Havard Mk IV's Details: Place-Jodhpur , Ci- 1965 This is a great picture. Imagine a young flight cadet with a few hours of ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The Hindustan Trainer - 2 (HT-2)

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HT-2 Details: Ci-1965, PTE Allahbad This is the HT2. The HT2 was one of the first planes to roll out of the HAL (Hindustan Aeronautical ...

Nagpur Flying club

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Training staffL-R: Capt Tharegaonkar(in white shirt) , Capt Ramamurthy(Standing centre) , Capt kanga (With shades), Flt Cdt VP Roy (without ...
Monday, August 28, 2006

The First Flight

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The L-5 aircraft Details : -Circa: 1964, Nagpur EFTU (Elemantary Flight Training unit) This was the plane that dad first learnt flying on....

The Jawa Gang

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The bikers: (L-R) : S "Su" Soares , A.K "Babu" Shyam , Dad , A.V "Bhaggu" Bhagwat, V "Pashu" Pashupa...
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Dad with a Gnat MK1

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Details : -Circa: 1969, 22 Sqn, Kalaikonda Tell me life got any better then this!
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