I went to pick my wife up from my in-laws house in fardabad sec-9.

I was dead tired by doing the night shift then driving over to faridabad in the morning. Ok enough of my ranting. coming to the point. :p

I saw a IAF hunter at the Faridabad Town Park. I have been driving down that road for so long and never saw it till yesterday morning. Its been 6 years i got a chance to sit in the hunters cockpit. 🙁

I however did not stop to make the war-bird a personal visit but will surely do so with my Nikkon the next time I go to my In-laws. It sure did have some interesting camo.

Has anyone else seen this machine?

Watch for this space :diablo: :diablo:

Raids, mention warbirds and i will pop out of nowhere :diablo: :diablo:

Scroll down to “faridabad” in this page http://www.warbirds.in/wbpunjab.html

Please do take more pictures of it – hopefully clearer pics. Also let us know what the tail number on the aircraft is, so that we can construct its history. I will also appreciate a ‘report’ on the aircrafts condition and its location (i have ‘town park’ but what town park? where? details).

Look forward to your pics.

Cheers

Jagan

err.. send it to the UK, so that you can strip the metal skins and replace it with newly manufactured skins, then use all the ribs, longerons, and whatever as patterns for new parts and then discard everything in the trash can..and finally get a ‘new’ spitfire that does not havey anything original left in it? give me the banana spitfire any day 🙂

UK has already has dozens of spitfires.. why do you grudge this one in india which is only the fourth survivor?

PS: I would love to know how much of the original paint and markings from the Gulbarga Bf109 is going to survive the restoration process…

Hi Jonathan,

It could also do with what BAe is asking for to do the required upgrades/downgrades.

The IN is on the verge of getting MiG29Ks for use in a few years. They dont see the SHARS operating beyond a certain point. maybe they felt it was too expensive to do the mods and put them on a combat role?

OTOH it could also be a backdoor way of getting aircraft into the force.. bring em as ‘training’ aircraft and then deploy them for combat roles. didnt Indonesia do that with the hawks – and that created a furore in the UK parliament?

Ah K Serials!

A very kind contributor had sent us some photos on our site. A number of Harts, Audax, and the odd Atlanta , Valencia and Lysander

The photos are at these links
“Aircraft of No.1 SFTS”
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Trg-1SFTS02.html

and

“RAF Stn Kohat”
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/KohatAC.html

JDK,

Whats news about the Lizzie book?

I think the modding has to do with the engine – able to churn out enough power under certain temperature conditions. the FRS 2s are probably heavier than the FRS51s and if the engines turn out lesser power under the higher temp conditions, the damn thing is not going to take off under certain conditions.. the news report i read talked about removing certain boxes from the FRS2 so as to make it lighter – but this would reuce its combat effectiveness – result being its fit for ‘training’ only.. or atleast that was the gist fo the report.

The first two tanks in the “row of captured american tanks” appear to be russian – probably a PT76 and a T55 – maybe the reason theyouth were so eager to get photographed.

and i would REALLY like to KNOW HOW the pitot tube of the Fitter mounted so high was bent 😀

Lovely pictures – I esp like the MiG-21F-13 .. very rare in this part of the world

http://www.warbirdsofindia.com/wbblrhal.html

AFAIK , the exotic and unusual stuff is a DH Devon, which is the only example in a museum (not even the IAF museum has one) . but then this is pedestrian stuff in the UK.

I used to love the Mig-21U, it had all the production stencils on it and it was a treat to read thru the stuff and know what part of the ac is maintained how.. then these guys went ahead and painted all over it in ugly green.

They only have one baliol in the SLAF Museum, but I guess that in itself is pretty rare. Plus add a Tigermoth tht they restored quite well.