Aviation

Also see

• Royal Air Force
• Indian Air Force

Aviation histories

• Indian Airways by Stephen H Smith. A work in three volumes published 1926-1930 detailing the first and special flights within and through India up to March 1930. Available at the British Library: UIN: BLL01003423426

The World Flyer’s Danger Zone 1927. Covers the hazards of mail flights south east from Calcutta across the Bay of Bengal to Burma and Thailand. Available at the British Library: 2nd edition 1927 UIN: BLL01003423427

For more details of Stephen H Smith, see Postal Service.

External links

• Flightglobal Archive.

The website states “The Flightglobal Archive invites you to explore 100 years of aviation history as it appeared in the original pages of Flight Magazine from 1909-2005”. There is a search facility.

Examples of articles relevant to India include:

• "Flying In India", 22 April 1911
• "Aviation in India", 9 November 1912, page 1018, 1019, 1020. Alternatively, after the first page, locate the next page on the left hand side of the screen and click on it, but at times it may be difficult to locate the correct page.
• "Aviation as Affecting India", 12 June 1919, page 777, 778, 779

• "The World's First Official Post By Aeroplane Allahabad, India, Saturday 18th February 1911" by Ken Harman www.studygroup.org, now an archived webpage.
• "When the first British Airways flight landed in India" by Shahkar Abidi, 19 September 2014 dnaindia.com. Retrieved 20 September 2014. The first commercial flight was in 1929.
• "Aviation in India – A Peep Into Its Early History" by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) May 15, 2008 kbhargava.com
• British Imperial Aviation Bibliography - author list & chronology compiled by Gordon Pirie August 2011. academia.edu. Mainly in respect of the period 1919-1939.

Historical books online

• "E Pericoloso Sporgersi: Jodhpur to Croydon" by Major-General D. S. Skelton Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1935;65:3 pages 197-207. Diary of a flight from Jodhpur to London, via Karachi and the Middle East, including cost details.
• Chariots of the Air by Harold Keates Hales 1936. Link to a series of pdf downloads, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Description of an air line trip from England to the East Indies and back. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".