Tales from the Long War

The Batle of the Somme — Part 2

Sometime in late 1914 the four boys from Trinity College embarked on a ship to Britain. We do not know…

The Battle of the Somme — a new perspective. Part 1

The Great War

Flying the A4 Skyhawk with the Royal Australian Navy

Guest column by Peter (‘Purps’) Greenfield

№5 Squadron reborn — Part 2

Selected to be the first Commanding Officer of №5 Jet Squadron and ordered to get his unit active as soon as…

SLAF Jet Squadron reborn

№5 Squadron comes to life again

Operation Poomalai

By June 1987 the separatist struggle in Sri Lanka was taking on the characteristics of a greater conflict. Armed groups of…

MiGs over Ceylon

In response to an urgent request for assistance from the Ceylon government in 1971, the USSR gifted five MiG-17F fighters and a…

Fast Jets and №5 Squadron (Part 1)

Founded in 1951, the Royal Ceylon Air Force (RCyAF; which became the Sri Lanka Air Force 21 years…

SLAF Choppers at War — Part 3

A token military