Wings of Fire - Pictures

Pictures

The book has 24 plates with photographs associated with the life and work of Kalam:

  1. Ramanathapuram, from where Kalam had completed his high schooling.
  2. Plate 8 shows his teachers at Schwartz High School.
  3. Plate 9 shows Nandi, an indigenous hovercraft prototype.
  4. Plate 10 shows the picture of a Church in Thumba, a place which was donated by the local Christian community to the India’s Space Research Centre.
  5. Plate 11 shows him with Prof. Vikram Sarabhai.
  6. Plate 12 shows an SLV-3 review meeting.
  7. Plate 13 shows presentation of members of SLV-3 team.
  8. Plate 14 is the first plate with a colour photograph and shows Prof. Brahm Prakash inspecting SLV-3 in its final stage on integration, and plate 16 shows a colour photograph of SLV-3 on the launch pad.
  9. Plate 15 shows him with Prof. Satish Dhawan and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
  10. Plate 16 shows SLV-3 launch.
  11. Plate 17 shows him receiving Padma Bhushan.
  12. Plates 18 shows successful launch of Prithvi, now a part of India’s surface-to-surface weapons system.
  13. Plate 19 shows Kalam standing by the side of Agni, standing on its launch pad.
  14. Plate 20 shows a cartoon by renowned cartoonist R.K. Laxman.
  15. Plate 21 shows another cartoon on the failure of Agni Missile.
  16. Plate 22 shows him after successful launch of Agni Missile.
  17. Plate 23 shows Kalam receiving the Bharat Ratna from the President, K. R. Narayanan.

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