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16 Jan 2021 ODYSSEY AI-48: 15.01.2021 “CALL TIME”
10 Jan 2021 Wartime reference book: Report on the progress of Civil Aviation 1939-1945.
10 Jan 2021 Wartime reference book: World War Two Censor Marks. Second Edition by Nick Colley, Published in 2016
10 Jan 2021 Wartime reference book: Conspiracy of Silence - Japanese Prisoners of War in India 1942-1946, by T.R. Sareen, Published in 2010
10 Jan 2021 Wartime reference book:
A Catalogue of Indian Censorship 1914-1920,
by Alan Baker & Charles Entwistle, Published in 1994.
10 Jan 2021 Blog Post - Allan Tramontana - Recovery during the expedition to the crash site of Air-India flights on Mont Blanc.
05 Jan 2021 ODYSSEY AI : 31.12.2020 "End of Orbit 6"
05 Jan 2021 ODYSSEY AI-47 : 04.01.2021 “WATAN KI SAIR”
04 Jan 2021 On Board reading - An original sketch used for production of ‘This makes no sense!’
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03 Jan 2021 Useful Links - This link provides a list of every delivery of a Boeing plane, going back to the late-1950's, for every airline.
02 Jan 2021 ODYSSEY AI-46 : 01.01.2021 “CRASH OF AN EMPEROR”
01 Jan 2021 ODYSSEY AI-45 : 31.12.2020 “MILLENNIUM ANNOUNCEMENT”
30 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI-44 & 44A: 29.12.2020 "Farewell My Friend"
30 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI-43: 27.12.2020 “ONE DAY”
30 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI-42A: 25.12.2020 “MERI KURISUMASU ”
29 Dec 2020 Useful Links - Vir Sanghvi’s take on the halcyon days of Air-India. How in-flight glamour was downgraded from business class to coach in what was at one time the finest airline in the world.
22 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI-42: 22.12.2020 “MIDNIGHT ON THE MENAM”
15 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI: 30.11.2020 "End of Orbit 5
13 Dec 2020 Useful Links - The GBPS has posted a superb reference set of English language versions of UPU Conventions and Related Documents
13 Dec 2020 Useful Links - Air-India Trivia: Aeroplane Garden, Juhu Tara road, Santacruz West.
07 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI-41 : 05.12.2020 “ MY 700th FLIGHT AS AN I.F.S ”
03 Dec 2020 ODYSSEY AI-40 : 03.12.2020 “ FLIGHT TO ETERNITY ”
01 Dec 2020 Air-India Playing Card type 102-A and 102-B with Wellcome Gift Box.
01 Dec 2020 OTW - Indian Airlines Embarkation Card.
01 Dec 2020 OTW - Indian Airlines Bangalore to Agra Baggage Tag.
01 Dec 2020 OTW - Air-India Timetable, October 1989, March 1991.
01 Dec 2020 OTW - Air-India International Souvenir Green Ashtray
01 Dec 2020 Two Air-India pilot badge updated
01 Dec 2020 Resources - List of First Flight of Tata Sons, Air-India, Indian Airlines and Other Airways by Ashok K. Kora.
01 Dec 2020 9 Air-India Advertisement updated.
01 Dec 2020 Useful Links - 1932-1982, 50 Years of Indian Civil Air Transport.
01 Dec 2020 Useful Links - The Sky is the Limit.
The Taj Group of Hotels salutes its spirited Chairman J.R.D. Tata
30 Nov 2020 ODYSSEY AI-39 : 30.11.2020 “ AMCHI NEW DESTINATION ”
27 Nov 2020 Shell Aeronautical Aviation vintage Map of Karachi Drigh Road & Calcutta Dum Dum.
26 Nov 2020 Foreign Airlines details updated.
26 Nov 2020 NIC - Travel Case Bags from Maria Piedade
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17 Nov 2020 ODYSSEY AI-38 : 16.11.2020 “ TRIUMPH ”
15 Nov 2020 ODYSSEY AI-36 : 14.11.2020 FLIGHT OF FANCY - 6 ” Children’s Day Special
12 Nov 2020 ODYSSEY AI-35 : 11.11.2020 “ MY 400th FLIGHT AS AN I.F.S.”
02 Nov 2020 ODYSSEY AI-34 : 01.11.2020 “VIGILANCE AWARENESS WEEK"
01 Nov 2020 ODYSSEY AI: 31.10.2020 "ORBIT 4 ENDS - Likes and Comments"
26 Oct 2020
Useful Link - Various articles on Youth Philately and Stamps collecting.
17 Oct 2020
Useful Link - Collector Bazar online platform where you can buy and sell all kinds of collectible items.
15 Oct 2020
ODYSSEY AI-29 & 29A: 15.10.2020 “ON THE WINGS OF A DREAM" & "88 TODAY"
15 Oct 2020
ODYSSEY AI-27 & AI-28 : 15.10.2020 “60 TODAY" & "70 TODAY"
14 Oct 2020
NIC - Air-India International deck of two set of playing card.
14 Oct 2020
Useful link/Air-India Trivia - THE AIR INDIA ANTHEM: Hum Hai Air Indian!!!
14 Oct 2020
Useful link/Air-India History - Air India in its glorious years.
24 February 2020 by unusualescape.com.
14 Oct 2020
Useful Link/Indian Civil Aviation - Who was Nevil Vintcent? by Harish Bhat, Linkedin, 27 September, 2020.
14 Oct 2020
Useful link/Indian Civil Aviation - A Pioneering Pilot, By Petlee Peter - TOI, Bangalore, 27th September 2020.
14 Oct 2020
NIC -
The creative team of Air-India commemorated the introduction of the airline's first Boeing 747 with a new theme: "Your Palace in the Sky" in 1971.
14 Oct 2020
NIC - Air-India
air hostess from left to right. Ms. Rita Roy, Mrs. Hemmady and Ms. Erica Lal..
14 Oct 2020
NIC - Bombay 19th July 1930 images of Mrs.F.D.Petti - India's First Lady Pilot
14 Oct 2020
NIC - Bombay-London inaugural flight Crew member photo.
14 Oct 2020
Useful link - A-I 'Maharaja' turns cultural envoy by A Staff Reporter.
13 Oct 2020
ODYSSEY AI-26 : 12.10.2020 “WE LIVED THIS DAY TWICE’’
6 Oct 2020
ODYSSEY AI-25: 04.10.2020 “FLIGHTS OF FANCY.”
29 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI-24: 03.10.2020 “ Management Seminars for I.F.Ss.”
29 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI-23: 02.10.2020 “REMEMBERING OCTOBER 2, 1993”
30 Sep 2020
Air-India had built a concrete Boeing 707 in the airlines livery at a public park in Juhu, Bombay in the 1960s.
29 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI: 30 09 2020 "Orbit Three Completed"
29 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI-22: 21.09.2020 “Making a Difference to make Air India"
27 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI-20: 17.09.2020
“Ariana Afghan Airlines Flights”
25 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI-19: 11.09.2020 “Leaves, Blossoms & Memories”
22 Sep 2020
Reference Book - The Scond Homeland: Polish Refugees in India by Anuradha Bhattacharjee
04 Sep 2020
ODYSSEY AI-18: Air-India’s Secret Mission
02 Sep 2020
Comments received from Orbit Two
01 Sep 2020
Orbit Two Completed
29 Aug 2020
ODYSSEY AI-17:29.08.2020 “Game to Fame”
28 Aug 2020
ODYSSEY AI-16: 20.08.2020 “Ariana Afghan Airlines”
22 Aug 2020
Air-India Wall Calendar 2016
17 Aug 2020:
Article -
Post-War Airlines of India
by Maurice Wickstead. Published in the Propliner Annual 2018 & 2019
16 Aug 2020
Rogues Gallery’ with images of 191 posters of the airline from 1946 through 1972
15 Aug 2020
India Travel Posters Issued by Others
28 Dec 2020 Useful Links - www.simpleflying.com is the best source of up-to-date information on what’s happening in Indian Civil Aviation