The history of the Indian Air Force began with its establishment in 1932 and continues up to the present day.
Read more about History Of The Indian Air Force: Formation and Early Pilots, World War II (1939-1945), Partition of India (1947), First Kashmir War 1947, Congo Crisis (1961), Sino-Indian War (1962), Second Kashmir War 1965, Bangladesh Liberation War 1971, Operation Meghdoot 1984, Operation Poomalai (1987), Operation Pawan (1987), Kargil 1999, Atlantique Incident
Famous quotes containing the words history, indian, air and/or force:
“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility—I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“As I went forth early on a still and frosty morning, the trees looked like airy creatures of darkness caught napping; on this side huddled together, with their gray hairs streaming, in a secluded valley which the sun had not penetrated; on that, hurrying off in Indian file along some watercourse, while the shrubs and grasses, like elves and fairies of the night, sought to hide their diminished heads in the snow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He who will one day teach men to fly will have displaced all boundary stones; the boundary stones themselves will fly up into the air to him, and he will rebaptize the earth—as “the weightless.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)