Despite staying in Bangalore for a long time, I never managed to go to Aero India, a biennial airshow 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 air show made me mess up with my camera settings and on top of that light was against us along with an overcast sky. That resulted in very few considerably good photos of the metal birds. A friend mentioned that this RAF Leuchars Air show was no where close to Aero India which happens every two years in Bangalore (Leuchars airshow is a one-day event which happens every year, whereas Aero India is a five-day event).
I love traveling but i never went to a place where live Airshow can be seen I think this is really exciting