New Delhi,24 May:The IAF’s helicopter aerobatics display team ‘Sarang’ would be performing at the Berlin Air show from 27 May till 01 Jun 08.
The ‘Sarang’ Team of 14 officers and 32 airmen, led by the Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Shashank Misra, is slated to perform in the ILA 2008 (Air show) being held in Berlin from 27 May to 01 Jun 08. Subsequently, the Team is participating in various displays in England starting with the Biggin Hill Air Show at Biggin Hill, an airfield just south of London, from 07 to 08 Jun 08. This is followed by displays at the Waddington Air Show on 05-06 Jul 08 and the Fairford Royal International Air Tattoo on 12-13 Jul 08 which is being held to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force. The team’s tour culminates with display during the Farnborough International Air Show from 14 to 20 Jul 08.The Sarang team has formulated and executed a three helicopter display profile with little experience in the field of display in a very short span of time. The first public display of the Sarang Team was during the Asian Aerospace at Singapore in 2004. The display was appreciated by the viewers across the globe and the Team earned rave reviews from international media. Since then, the Team has graduated to a four helicopter team and has participated in numerous displays in India and abroad.
The Team was also adjudged as one amongst the ten best display tem in the world after its performance at the AI Ain Aerobatic Show at UAE in Jan 05. The Team is a regular participant during the bi-annual Aero India International air show held at Air Force Station Yelahanka. Other than this, the Team undertakes displays during various prestigious events such as Air Force Day, National Defence Academy Passing out Parade, and other events of national and international significance.
‘Sarang’ Helicopter Display Team of the Indian Air Force was formed in Mar 2002 with the aim of showcasing the professionalism of the IAF and the giant leap by India’s aviation industry. The name ‘Sarang’ was chosen for the team, as the Peacock is one of the most enchanting birds and epitomizes beauty and grace which is also the hallmark of the Team’s display. The Team’s helicopters have been painted in a unique paint scheme which utilizes bright colours with a peacock from imposed on it. Courtsey: DD NEWS
>She also is doing fabulous in shcool (math and science areas included), she’s super athletic, and she’s just as rough and tumble as any boy her age.Ryan, your daughter is 6. Studies have shown that pursuing interests in math and science drops off precipitously by puberty and into the high shcool and college years. A hefty part of that is peer pressure and social conformity, and biases in the actual way science is taught to students. Really, it’s great to foster that interest now. But just wait I hope it continues and your daughter bucks the trend. But as a woman in science, I can say that the macho culture and outright sexist teachers are still out there in force.>We are programed by NATURE to be the way we are. Females are NATURALLY and INSTINCTIVELY more nurturing and caring then males. False. Read much anthropology studies regarding aboriginal societies? There’s a lot more diversity within human cultures as to both gender roles within family units AND role with the larger community. Children imitate what they see same-gender parents do, and they also respond to positive and negative reinforcement. What many societies think of as natural is really social. > Males have always done the hunting and killing to survive, females have always done the caring taking and nurturing to survive. Again, not true. There have been societies where the norm is for women to do most of the farming/landowning. Or where men and women both doing the hunting and gathering. Yes, women if they do most of the child-rearing are limited in hunting, but there are/have been lowtech societies where women are not stopped from hunting, or men from child-rearing after weaning age.Tangential note: please remember, if women had waited around the fire nursing babies for the men to come back from a successful hunt, Homo as a genus and probably every preceding and cousin species before that would NOT have survived. If the best predators on earth are successful 1 out of 10 hunts, then humans (not the best, even with higher tech) are even less successful. In reality, the women wereoverall nursing babies, WHILE gathering firemaking materials, berries, nuts, roots, leafy vegetables, AND making smaller kills (insects, grubs, shellfish, fish, snails, rodents, rabbits, etc.). So that if the men banded together to hunt and were unsuccessful, there was still something to eat that night and something to put away for the winter. And on days that there was no large game, the men would likely be right there making rafts, teaching children, fixing or making new weapons, cutting down saplings, etc. Cave men days were not what most people think they were, nor were they all that far in our past.>So, in my opinion, it’s biology that drives children to play with “gender-assigned” toys…. not the marketing industry. I repeat, from my earlier comment:And if the colors are so neutral, then where are the neutral colors? Where are the lighter blues, darker purples, oranges, reds, yellows, etc? Why would a boy’s camera, microscope, or telescope come with more options, if not to send the (not so) subliminal signal that boys should care about that, and girls shouldn’t?We’re not talking gender identity, we’re talking gender sterotypes and behavior that limit expression of their personhood, or rather, try to define their personhood by their chromosomes.