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Jagan

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/wake-turbulence-led-to-c-130-j-aircraft-crash/ The shocking crash last month of the IAF’s special operations C-130 J aircraft is believed to have been caused by the transporter inadvertently flying into the wake of the lead plane during the tactica...

Jagan

Congratulations Jagan. All very well-deserved. This is in the perfect tradition which I admire very much, of someone who has a "day job" and then pursues something outside with an ardor of the professional scholar. It is similar to those old time IAS officers, who did whatever they did an...

Jagan

Never heard of a button triggerred ejection other than in that james bond movie

.. it is always a pull down blind/handle at the top of the seat or between the legs.

Jagan

Yes and the pilot would have felt the loss of acceleration and seen the loss of RPM. The engine clearly vomits fire, slows down but keeps climbing for a brief time before it starts descending. That was the point to eject and it did not happen. We dont see it in the video - but an experienced ATC Of...

Jagan

It could have been given to the Russian manufacturer for analysis - and leaked from there. I have seen recent photos of the MI-26 and an AN-32 crash appear on a russian site that usually is not public info in India.. i can only guess ...

Jagan

Was randomly searching on youtube and came across this... very saddening ... not difficult to identify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Z2OPh9FvI Should someone get court-martialed for leaking this??!!! Holy c***. what a tragic video.. the ladys accent sounded definitely Indian (maybe south indian...

Jagan

Man's best friend, arguably the puppy, the dog has stood by him since the early days of flight. The dog appears in the very first pictures of the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hill. Why is it that airmen have had the need for a dog as a friend? Here is some answer to that riddle. It even has a pict...

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Sassoon was apparently paraded as a captured PoW on TV by the Pakistanis, and recognised by Indian colleagues. Again, appears to be hearsay. The second link that you provided has the data from an official IAF research work by Sqn Ldr R T S Chhina (mispelled as Cheema) and there was no such claim. I...

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sunder, regarding Sasoon, There was no real hard evidence that he was 'seen' in captivity - . the only lead was the radio announcement that was heard about a 'flt lt shanti' as a POW . then there was some backtracking that mentioned that the confusion was between another POW who was named 'chati' . ...

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Review from Asian Age http://www.asianage.com/books/flying-machines-266 The flying machines Mar 30, 2014 - Gautam Chintamani .........Traditionally books on military history in India are left to experts, historians or, at best, enthusiasts, but Eagles Over Bangladesh manages to break away from this ...

Jagan

Chaks, congratulations. Content looks mighty interesting. I will definitely get it when it gets launched.

Jagan

The list of 54 servicemen was first produced in Parliament in 1979, and gets furnished in its original format everytime a question is asked in the Lok Sabha. The last time it was produced was last year by AKA. As a matter of coincidence.. I found these today.. the transcript of the Q and A Session ...

Jagan

The Actual HB report is of multiple thickly bound volumes. What was leaked was the summary. R D Pradhan writes about the physical description of the report in his book on Y B Chavan. Pradhan was one of the fews to 'handle' the report.. he had to deliver it to the president S radhakrishnan when he as...

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Reviewed in today's Hindu by Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramanian (A serving officer) http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/fighting-high-over-the-eastern-theatre/article5797038.ece The book clearly focuses on how a rejuvenated IAF played a critical role along with the Indian Army in pulverising...

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The list of 54 servicemen was first produced in Parliament in 1979, and gets furnished in its original format everytime a question is asked in the Lok Sabha. The last time it was produced was last year by AKA. The list is itself probably filed by the MoD for easy retrieval everytime the issue crops...

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np raj or shiv. I am of the opinion that posts should stand on their own merits and not on the qualifications / background of the poster. that said, here is some food for thought about the POW list. this was part of a couple of emails i had composed years ago on the POW list. might as well post it h...

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Raj, 1971 was mostly a rip-off of several escape based movies - including "great escape" . was it based on real piece of history ? not really. that there are still POWs from the Air Force in Pakistan. More details? How many? Who exactly? You will be surprised when you examine it on a case ...

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The story of Flight Lt. Dilip Parulkar & team's escape from Pakistan was fictionalized into a Hindi movie called '1971' starring Manoj Bajpai. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070408/spectrum/main9.htm Apart from Lakshya, this is another recent war movie that I enjoyed watching. seriously ? 1...

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Jagman, got the book...and leafing through the same tells me that this is going to become THE REFERENCE book on 71 air war in times to come...mark my words on that. On a side note, picked up the book from a small, though very well stocked, mom & pop type book store. So, good distribution on par...

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@kancha.. actually u r right. i also felt the same abt paper quality. @jagan...if its not a trade secret, how many copies have sold ?? Manjgu, its not even a couple of months so no sales figures yet. though myself, friends and family accounted for 200 copies :).. i expect maybe a 1000 got sold all ...

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Here is the another endorsement from Vishnu Vishnu Som, ( NDTV ) writes : "I leafed through the first few pages of Eagles Over Bangladesh and realised there was no point in just reading it. It had to be studied with the seriousness that an outstanding work of history deserves. Outstanding effor...

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Thanks Philip. I guess we stayed off the Sea Hawk and Alize Operations as they were covered very well in the Navy Histories as well as the recent Sea Hawk book by Admiral Pasricha. but I get the point of having everything in one place.

Jagan

S Bajwa, where are you? if in the US, read the first post in this thread for BR-ites. or drop me an email airforce At Bharat dash rakshak dot com
If in UK, try Aviation-Bookshop. (all these ofcourse are for the Hardcover.)

Anywhere else will be a problem..

Jagan

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The review from "Salute" Magazine - Feb / March 2013 issue

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1. Anyway mathJax or LaTeX facility can be given? 2. I have several images (png) which I would like to post in math, physics, and nukkad and SF 8) threads. How do I do that? 3. I would like to use an external editor (I am going to try to do an emacs mode for posting on phpBB) on a Linux machine for...

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Jagan, just to advise - still trying to get time to read it thoroughly. Off to Netherlands again hunting ships ! Why couldn't it have been India ? Sanjay, sorry didnt get that question.. could you elaborate? i may have missed something jagan..is it possible to see on youtube some of the shots filme...

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Two nice reviews on Infibeam By Guest, 2014-01-12 00:00:00.0 History ,as it is taught in our schools and colleges,is certainly not one of the most interesting of subjects,so why would anyone want to read a book on Military Aviation History ,which is not yet part of the required reading list?But the ...

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Lalmohan wrote:jagan - i dont think that it is necessary for you to analyse the politics or the sociological effects/events of the war - that is a whole different book, where the air war will be a footnote. to be honest, blood telegram (amongst recent books) does that well enough

my thoughts egjacgly

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Jagan

the one para which i found very pertinent and summed up things rather well.... ' The result is a methodological slippage: the work drifts periodically from the terrain of the historian, who must evaluate and organize material with a ‘so what’ question in mind, into that of the chronicler, who wants...

Jagan

Prof Satadru Sen's critique of the book on his blog "Das Blog" http://satadru-sen.blogspot.com/2014/01/military-history-and-bangladesh-war.html He pulls no punches in reviewing the book from a professional historian's perspective. I found myself agreeing with some portions of the critique ...

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Pah! You TFTA elites and your amazon prime....I got my copy lovingly signed and gift wrapped by Jag Man himself :P Finished reading in 2 days ..... simply unputdownable!! Awesome work Jag Man!! 8) Lovingly is right - I take my book-wrapping seriously :P Yeah super deal for the HB edition.. isnt it?...

Jagan

Cool guys.. again. appreciate your interest in the book

Aditya G - atrocious shipping time!

Jagan

Thanks Karan. We discovered many stories for the first time and were delighted .... like using the K-13s for harrasment .. or that station commanders themselves were itching to fly sorties during the war.. There were a whole bunch of airfield bombing photos from AVM Bishnoi that didnt make the book ...

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jagan, why were canberas doing night bombing even when PAF was neutralized? After the PAF was neutralised there was only one night that the Canberras bombed the airfield - that was the raid with 4000lbers... which was also to quash a potential escape by the Pakistani aircraft.. so it must have been...

Jagan

read the book..well done !! there could have been a section as to where the oldies are today like it was in the 1965 book? Had to skip that due to two reasons . This one is effectively half the book.. we thought it should go towards end of the "Volume 2 - The western front ops". maybe a b...

Jagan

Karan, agree on the hardback. we were disappointed that HCI opted to go for the SB edition for the Indian market.. But in their logic, a 400 page paperback priced Rs500 in itself was a tough sell for them. a hardbound would have seen a very short print run and sales. But who knows they might change ...

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Some days you wake up and it turns out to be an awesome day.. Shekar Gupta, Editor in Chief of the Indian Express weighs in on the book in his Editorial for today http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/national-interest-war-and-relative-peace/ Need to deal with our military past with genui...

Jagan

You are welcome Shameek and others. Hope you will enjoy it. Sanjay, Can you let us know how fast the shipment from Amazon came? (or from its sellers?) I note the book is available mostly from third party sellers on Amazon (And there seems to be some 'auto' price war for the softbound version - leadi...

Jagan

Our first book review has been published in City Express section of the Bangalore "The New Indian Express" published on 7th January 2014 written by one of the editors Vyas Sivanand. Their narrative, which according to the authors, relies on a day-today recounting of activities, is gripping...

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Kersi

Read the book. At the end is a multiple choice question and answer paper. fill that in. You should get 90% correct before you get to buy the sequel

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