Losing out on my own domain

Once in a while I like to Google my name (talk about ego!) and see where my sites come up.. But this was unexpected

Google Search on "Jagan Pillarisetti"

Neither my Warbirds of India website nor my Bharat Rakshak website is No.1 - instead my photos hosted on Airliners.net come up . Talk about my own sites losing out!! Result no.4 is even funnier, it is about some photographs of railway stations I took last year... , guess that proves that railway fans are more in number than aviation or warbird fans. But then IRFCA is the largest Railway fans website, much much larger than warbirds.

anyway to cut a long story short, I must be the only Jagan pillarisetti on the web, because i could not find any other reference to any other Jagan Pillarisetti other than me..atleast in the first five pages of results.

Okay okay.. Why not do a Google search on just Pillarisetti. It turns out there are thousands of Pillarisettis on the net , but the Airliners.net link is No.2 - So something good has come out of Airliners after all.!!!

Finally I did a search on google for just Jagan. It would be such a common name I would not expect a good rank, but surprise! Its rank no.3 for my Tripod Site. and Rank no.8 for Warbirds. Not bad for such a common search.

Rhinos add more teeth to Pune air base

Interesting reports that we miss reading because they are published in regional news papers - 1

The above link is a report on the re-raising of No.30 Squadron "Rhinos" last April, an event that went totally unnoticed in the IndMilWorld - because it did not make the mainstream press. Now a search of ToI's regional archive brings up the news report on the event.

The Public got its first confirmation in February 2005 at Aero India when the MKis flown there were provided by the Rhinos.

Hyderabad and environs from the Air

I was always fascinated as to how Hyderabad looks from the air. So when I got the chance to fly to bangalore in an ATR42 of Air Deccan on the 8th of February, I happily clicked away at the scenes below. Hope they are interesting enough.

Nadirgul airfield to the southwest of Hyderabad. Its a surprise to find a paved runway at this place.

The ATR-42 is now flying over Osmania University. The Arts College building is prominent (bottom Left). The Osmania Unversity Library corner can just be seen in the bottom. the other OU Park dominates most of the picture

This is an easy one - Tarnaka. The flyover from Secbad to Uppal can be seen, as is the APSRTC Hospital at the bottom of the frame. Further to the top left is the Tarnaka flyover that goes to ECIL X Roads

The Hillock in the center is definitely the Moula-Ali hill

This another picture further down. That lake is a surprise - I assume its at Safilguda. The Road in bottom center will help us find out.

This is a shot of Secunderabad from the Air looking North. I have not been able to find out which location this is..

Army Aviation Cheetahs to Congo? (The Tribune)

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories

The above report says that five Army Aviation Cheetahs are on their way to Congo to take part in the UN mission. That certainly is a first for Army aviators going on Peace Keeping abroad. However I cant escape the feeling that this is again due to some inter force rivalry ? The army obviously claims that this is required as the AF choppers are not enough. Why not just ask the IAF to send more choppers if all is hunky dory? go figure.