Hot day, a huge crowd, and most people would have gotten back exhausted. The arrangements at AeroIndia could have been better. But props to those who attended. Open-air fields are rough. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger haha. Nevertheless, I did enjoy many things at the show — I had to. I can’t hate aviation.
So, without much ado Here’s a list of the main aircrafts that performed Aerobatics at the event:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Tejas (my first viewing of this Indian Fighter Aircraft! I love to hate on HAL for their slow pace,. but this one’s aerobatic abilities pleasantly surprise me!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet (US)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon (US)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen (Swedish, in the pic below.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Rafale (French, Dassault also makes Mirage 2000 which IAF already has)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30 (Russian, demo’ed by IAF)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon (Developed by a consortium of 4 European countries. An Italian flew it at the show. One of the top aircraft on the show)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Dhruv (HAL’s Dhruv helicopter seems great too!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Kiran (flown by the Suryakiran team)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zl%C3%ADn_Z_50 (Red Bull team’s aircraft)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_2000
A jet trainer that I can’t recollect now — probably the BAE Hawk
(And there were IL76, Mi18, Chetak, C-130J, Avro, and others parked away.)
And this is from the top of my head! I identified almost all of them in Air, given the PA system was quite a hit-and-miss.)
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