India from Google Earth (Part 1)
The government is trying to get Google Earth to go easy on sensitive Indian installations. The government’s latent irritation with Google Earth was legitimised when […]
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Aircraft And Helicopters
Why isn’t the HAL Tejas part of the MRCA push?
A pertinent question if ever there was one. But like almost everything else in our country — especially when it has to do with impossible
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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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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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Farewell, Foxbat
April 16, 2006 The air force station at Bareilly is like any other airbase in the country. Clean, well maintained, neatly pruned hedges, shining insignias