The great Indian airlift

Barrackpore is an idyllic cantonment town on the banks of the Hooghly, a little downstream of megalopolis Kolkata. Till the early eighties, the Air Force Station here was home to the Indian Air Force's (IAF) vintage birds like Dakotas, Caribous and Otters. Apart from Sholavaram, it was also the venue of a desi Grand Prix, where the likes of Vijay Mallya raced their formula cars.

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