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Desktop Calendar: November 2011

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Background image: Forth rail bridge, Edinburgh – a 2.5KMs long cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth.

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Desktop Calendar: October 2011

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Background image: Loch Ness, Inverness.

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Leuchars Airshow

Sep 26, 2011 Scotland, UK 1 Comment

Despite staying in Bangalore for a long time I never managed to go to Aero India, a biennial air show held in Yelahanka Air force station, Bangalore. When I got to know about airshow by Royal Air Force at Luechars, I couldn’t stop myself going there besides the bad weather. The day started with rain and visibility of just 100 meters when we started from Aberdeen. But we were fortunate enough as rain gave away. Though the parachute display was cancelled due to bad weather, we had a glimpse of a range of flights – The Red Arrows, Hawk T1 and Tucano T1 – all three from Royal Air Force, F16s from Dutch Air Force, Vulcans, Pitts, Catalina (flying boat) and Dornier Alpha Jet from French Air.

The excitement of witnessing my first airshow made me mess up with my camera settings and on top of that light was against us along with overcast sky. That resulted in very few considerably good photos of the metal birds. A friend mentioned that this RAF Leuchars Airshow was no where close to Aero India which happens every two years in Bangalore (Leuchars airshow is an one day event which happens every year, where as Aero India is a five day event).

I Was Here: Mattu beach

Sep 19, 2011 I Was Here 3 Comments

I was in Mattu beach in first week of March 2008 during my bike ride to West coast. I was not aware of the name of the beach when I visited and quite recently got to know that it’s called as Mattu beach.

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