JOURNEY THROUGH
THE MEMORABLE HISTORY
OF
SRI LANKAN AVIATION

1.01
A Foundation In The Sky
1.02
The Story of "Sunethra Devi"
1.03 The Story of "Sunethra Devi": Part 2
1.04
Those Soaring Memories
1.05
Conquering the Skies
1.06
When Mahadevi ruled the skies
1.07 Sixty Years of Sri Lankan Air Mail
1.08 The day the Air Ceylon Avro was bombed
1.09 "Juliet is no more!"
1.10 The Air Raid on Colombo on 5th April 1942
1.11 Of Cowboys and Top Guns
1.12 The Brigadyr Aircraft of the Irrigation Department
1.13 AIR CEYLON 1948 – 1978
1.14 Double Anniversary In Aviation And Transportation
1.15 Ceylon’s First Flights
1.16 A Hundred Years of Flying
1.17 Air Ceylon … the way it used to be
1.18 First Ceylonese Pilgrimage to Mecca by Air
1.19 An epic Air Ceylon charter flight in late 1940s
1.20 Pioneers of Civil Aviation in Sri Lanka
2.01
Enter Vampires - The day jet planes first came to Ceylon
2.02
Eggie’s ‘Egg-cellent’ Adventures
2.03
Watching history happen
2.04 Missing The Mark
2.05
The Price Of Love
2.06 A 99% Chance of Being Killed
2.07
Cross country flying
2.08 Air Force Flying with ‘Zak’
2.09
Turn around, young man!
2.10
Sudhila and the overturned Auster ‘Alpha Mike’
2.11 When San Michele save the day
2.12
Exciting travelogue takes off again
2.13 My First Command Flight Nearly Bombed Out
2.14 Farewell to the TriStar
2.15 Aviation Milestones of Sri Lanka
2.16 First time in the African sky
2.17 A Sad Day to Remember
2.18 Night Flying, The Way It Used To Be
2.19 Flying Through the 'Desert Storm' - Part 1
2.20 Flying Through the 'Desert Storm' - Part 2
3.01
How Ceylon was part of a vital aerial lifeline during world war II
3.02 The Catalinas - to re-establish the Australia-England air link
3.03
The Secret Order of the Double Sun Rise
3.04 Flight of the Double Sunrise
3.05
The direct flights from Ceylon to Australia and back
3.06 75th Anniversary Of The Secret Order Of The Double Sunrise
3.07
Air raid 1942: No one was asked to resign
3.08 A chance in a million? - It was the late 1980s
3.09
How Ramasamy caught the Tiger by the Tail...
3.10
The Day the World Changed - On September 11, 2001
3.11 SLAF Museum, a nostalgic memory
3.12
In The Eyes Of The Beholder
3.13 The Genesis of Airmail Service in Ceylon (1928-1938)
3.14 Air Ceylon: The Pioneer Of Commercial Aviation In Sri Lanka
4.01 Lanka'a national interest in Sri Lankan Airlines
4.02 Development of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA)
4.03 International Day of the Air Traffic Controller
4.04 ‘Spark Air’ plans 2021 launch in Sri Lanka
4.05 Grounded, side-lined and forgotten
4.06 BIA’s Rs. 107bn phase 2 project to commence
4.07 SLAF Heaviest Ever Underslung Operation
4.08 I have a dream
4.09 General aviation and national security
4.10 Betrothal in the sky, pilot as the medium
4.11 How to counter ‘Flying Tigers’
4.12 Combating LTTE airpower
4.13 Could a model aircraft be used as a weapon of destruction?
4.14 An Airline that went nowhere
4.15 Can SriLankan go it alone?
4.16 The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA)
4.17 SriLankan Airlines turns 33 (2012)
4.18 Palaly Comes to Life Again
4.19 Living Elmo’s Dream
4.20 Future for Helicopter operations in Sri Lanka
5.01
Fly Me To The Moon
5.02
Great Wall of China in Kathmandu
5.03 Kudurai Madiri Pona – ride it like a horse
5.04
Poetry In The Sky
5.05
Save The Last Dance For Me
5.06
Lest Such Be Forgotten
5.07 Magnificent Men without their Flying Machines
5.08 Living in the clouds
5.09 The Easter air raid in April 1942
5.10 Boeing - a Perfect Parable for 21st Century Capitalism!
5.11 Sri Lanka’s first aviation-related Sinhala magazine
5.12 ‘This is your Captain speaking!’
5.13 The National Flag
5.14 'Fun Flying' - A personal experience with Captain Elmo
5.15 Airline Captain: God or airplane driver?
5.16 The Flight of 'November 84512'
5.17 Recreational flying and the game of Golf
5.18 Spending Christmas Season Away From Home and Family
5.19 Thunderstorms and Airborne Weather Radar
5.20 Airline Pilots, Doctors and Lawyers
P1.01 Capt. George Ferdinand - 'Ferdy' started on Air Ceylon...
P1.02 Captain George Ferdinand - A man of valour
P1.03 Captain, wherever you may be Captain P. Nadarajah...
P1.04 Memories of our flying days
P1.05 Young pilot's last flight remembered 50 years later - Death dive into the sea
P1.06 Air Ceylon pioneer pilot ‘Captain Ma’ was a hero to us teens
P1.07 Capt. P. B. Mawalagedera - Appreciation
P1.08 Appreciation - Capt. Susantha (‘Sus’) Jayasekera
P1.09 Captain ‘Sus’ Jayasekera - A former airline pilot, officer in the RCAF...
P1.10 When a non-English speaking, sarong-clad, konde-wearing rustic...
P1.11 Father & Son Double Act - January 15, 2010 was a red letter...
P1.12 Living in the clouds - Enthralling hands on experiences of a SLA pilot ...
P1.13 A Reunion At 40,000 Feet
P1.14 SriLankan Airlines appoints first lady captain
P1.15 All female flying crew makes history at SriLankan Airlines
P1.16 Wing Commander A M Denzil Fernando - Appreciation
P1.17 More on Nihal Ratnayake - Pilot Extraordinary
P1.18 Captain Errol Cramer – Appreciation
P1.19 Capt. Emile Jayawardena
P1.20 Lankan makes waves in the skies
P2.01 Double up, double up - You copper coloured rice eating native...
P2.02 Edgar Cooray Flies West
P2.03 Well done, GAF!
P2.04 Malaysian plane search revives Sri Lankan tycoon’s missing jet mystery
P2.05 Fond Farewell - Captain Vanderstraaten
P2.06 Capt. Trevor Vanderstraaten flies West
P2.07 “The Flyer With a Big Heart” - Remembering Thibba
P2.08 Remembering Heroes of Operation Eagle
P2.09 Ravi Jayewardene - The driving force behind Air Lanka
A1.01 The Day the Air Ceylon Avro was Bombed
A1.02 "Juliet is no more!"
A1.03 Our Skies are safe
A1.04 Disaster, Here We Come!
A1.05 The crash of HS 125 G- BCUX at Dinsfold
A1.06 Is an accident a crime ? - An airplane pilot’s view
A1.07 Air Safety
A1.08 Auster 4R-AAJ
A1.09 A sad night to remember
A1.10 The Nicosia Tragedy – lest such be forgotten
A1.11 The Crash of Bristol Britannia HB-ITB
A1.12 An analysis of a deadly runway overrun
A1.13 The danger of airport walls
A1.14 Did Kobe Bryant die in vain?
A1.15 Initial Report: PIA A320 Crash
PP1.01 Undressing the SriLankan Bride
PP1.02 SriLankan Airlines continues to re-structure and review network
PP1.03 PAREXIST & FRAEXIT by SriLankan Airlines
PP1.04 Well done BIA – Toilet revolution has begun!
PP1.05 Business ‘class divide’ @ SriLankan Airlines
PP1.06 SriLankan Airlines enters into wet-lease agreement with PIA
PP1.07 PIA to return Airbus 330 leased from SriLankan Airlines
PP1.08 SriLankan pilots and crew their own whistleblowers
PP1.09 Pilots’ priority to safety and professionalism
PP1.10 SriLankan pilots protest illegal suspension, not alcohol tests
PP1.11 SriLankan Airlines clarifies
PP1.12 Sri Lanka to pay $115 million for cancelling planes: source
PP1.13 SriLankan Airlines chartering a course towards a sustainable future
PP1.14 SriLankan curbs losses and amalgamates Mihin
PP1.15 SriLankan Airlines in the news for all the right reasons: CEO
PP1.16 Sri Lanka pilots start union action over booze tests
PP1.17 Mihin to stop flying
PP1.18 Developing Mattala Airport, new pragmattic apporch needed
PP1.19 Govt. planning to develop BIA
PP1.20 Toilet paper scam at BIA
PP2.01 Ratmalana airport’s operations and unplanned development
PP2.02 Three steps to get SriLankan on track
PP2.03 More on SriLankan back on track
PP2.04 Saving the national carrier
PP2.05 Saving the national carrier - a rejoinder
PP2.06 True quality of airline pilots
PP2.07 Cancellation of the four Airbus A350-900 leases
PP2.08 Why SriLankan cancelled the A350s
PP2.09 Response to SriLankan Airlines management
PP2.10 Thai Pongal adventure
PP2.11 Airports should be seen as key economic centres
PP2.12 New Board for SriLankan
PP2.13 Rescuing SriLankan
PP2.14 Pilots’ union speaks up on how to rescue the national carrier
PP2.15 More Questions for SriLankan
PP2.16 Suspension lifted
PP2.17 Who is managing SriLankan Airlines?
PP2.18 Emirates remembers, the world remembers
PP2.19 Move to revive SriLankan Airlines takes off once again
PP2.20 More to remember on Emirates!
PP2.21 More facts to remember on Emirates!
PP2.22 How the national carrier was ruined
PP2.23 National aviation policy in the making
PP2.24 No more flights from Sri Lanka’s second airport
PP2.25 The last aircraft flies away from Mattala
PP2.26 Sri Lanka sets world record with no-fly airport
PP2.27 Lonely MRIA awaits stopovers
PP2.28 SriLankan CEO takes early retirement
PP2.29 Political appointees ran down SriLankan
PP2.30 An airborne published blunder
A joke told repeatedly at aviation industry conferences puts a man and a dog in an airplane. The dog is there to bite the pilot if the man so much as tries to touch the controls; the pilot’s one remaining job is to feed the dog. Many aviation veterans have heard the joke so many times that is possible to tell those in the audience new to the industry by their laughter.
Gary Stix, in Scientific American, July 1991.