{"id":399273,"date":"2021-02-05T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T06:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399273"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T06:36:03","slug":"aero-india-2021-surya-kirans-sarangs-win-hearts-hal-planes-dominate-air-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aero-india-2021-surya-kirans-sarangs-win-hearts-hal-planes-dominate-air-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Aero India 2021: Surya Kirans, Sarangs win hearts; HAL planes dominate air display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The inaugural of Aero India 2021 was a simple affair compared to flair and colour of previous editions. The integrated display of Surya Kirans and Sarangs enthralled the limited number of spectators allowed on the first day.<\/p>\n<p>The air display was crowded by HAL-manufactured aircraft in the absence of a big foreign presence. Other than the Rafale \u2014 which for the first time flew in Indian colours at Aero India \u2014 and the US B-1B Lancer bomber, all other aircraft, including choppers, were from the hangars of HAL.<\/p>\n<p>Chief minister BS Yediyurappa said: \u201cIt is a matter of pride for Karnataka and the people of Bengaluru for being chosen to host another edition of the show. Over the years, the state has created a unique infrastructure and ecosystem for holding an event of this magnitude.\u201d Yediyurappa said around 65% of India\u2019s aerospace exports are done from here, while 67% of production also happens in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The inaugural of Aero India 2021 was a simple affair compared to flair and colour of previous editions. The integrated display of Surya Kirans and Sarangs enthralled the limited number of spectators allowed on the first day. The air display was crowded by HAL-manufactured aircraft in the absence of a big foreign presence. Other than the Rafale \u2014 which for the first time flew in Indian colours at Aero India \u2014 and the US B-1B Lancer bomber, all other aircraft, including choppers, were from the hangars of HAL. Chief minister BS Yediyurappa said: \u201cIt is a matter of pride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}