'Overnight, the Chetak had new markings and thereafter flew on the call sign, Echo-Bravo-Romeo.''By all accounts, this was the first aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.'Air Commodore Nitin Sathe......
'You are to train three Bangladeshi pilots to fly this Chetak helicopter. Your task begins now.'Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd)'s thrilling account of how the Bangladesh Air Force was born.......
'We flew all missions in the first part of the war at low levels; that is at 300 to 500 feet above the ground.''These sorties were no doubt stressful since the pilots and crew had to look out for......