After the solid cloth round canopies had been modified with low porosity, turn and drive slots, an apex with additional steering lines for better stability and forward drive in the...
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November 22, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: Of Devas and the Dhartiputras – VII
From Scorchers to Scorpions and to Silver Streaks, it was a long journey for the Indian Air Force (IAF) aerobatic team. In 1981, it was mooted that for the celebration of...
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November 15, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: An Idea Whose Time had come! – VI
Even before PTS had started, Shamsher with his imaginative and resourceful handling made organised performances or demonstrations in skydiving in some areas of the country. Interestingly, some PJI officers had...
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November 8, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: Birth Pangs and Anxieties of Adolescence – V
Free Fall Training was temporarily a victim of “Stop-Go- Stop” hiccups. In order to counter the doubts on its efficacy, a re-examination and review of the free fall techniques learnt,...
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October 25, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: Do You Have it in You? – IV
Freefall had moved on from the ungainly and rather rigid spread-eagle position to “stable frog position” and onto body-acrobatics in the air. Skydivers were not so often to be...
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October 18, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: The Legend of the Fall-III
Having graduated and donned the Para Jump Instructors (PJI) brevets, they were trusted with the lives of all those brave paratroopers with maroon berets mostly of the Indian Army, who would grace the...
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October 4, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: PTS, the Home of Courage, Skill and Strength -II
The Indian Army mostly composed of the “maroon berets” or Paratroopers perform the operational role with the help of a large number of the aerial platforms like the transport...
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September 27, 2016
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Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Akashganga: Cosmogony and Mythology – I
The birth and creation of Akashganga: The Indian Air Force Skydiving Team is a long story of about forty years in the annals of sport parachuting. To the uninitiated the...