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PAF Flypast in 50s Vs IAF in 2021

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This is how Pakistan Air Force conducted it's flypast in it's infancy during the 50s era.

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And this is how the Indian air Force carried out a simple Arrowhead Formation flypast with it's Tejas aircraft.

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This is how it's supposed to look like.


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Even Birds are known to keep a better line and formation.

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1. Large aircraft formations were very common in 40s 50s and 60s. But nowadays large flying formation displays are very rare.

2. IAF is the only airforce in South Asia to have a full 9 aircraft aerial display team. Others do only 6 aircraft display teams (Update: Ok I was wrong here)

3. Tejas is not doing any arrow head formation but just a loose formation to display the high availability rate of Tejas
 
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The aerobatic team is normally different and have senior pilots. Does Sherdill consist of commander of different schools? Then it is a huge feat. As commanders have a lot of work besides flying and rehearsing aerobatics.

Anyway, poor formation says a lot. Pilots are not trained or not get enough flying hours on particular machine or not together in formation or lack confidence
 
1. Large aircraft formations were very common in 40s 50s and 60s. But nowadays large flying formation displays are very rare.

2. IAF is the only airforce in South Asia to have a full 9 aircraft aerial display team. Others do only 6 aircraft display teams.
say it again

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Pakistan Air Force (PAF) K-8 Karakorum aerobatics team "Sherdils" at first anniversary of operation swift retort


 
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1. Large aircraft formations were very common in 40s 50s and 60s. But nowadays large flying formation displays are very rare.

2. IAF is the only airforce in South Asia to have a full 9 aircraft aerial display team. Others do only 6 aircraft display teams.
say it again

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I think he meant South India instead of South Asia.
 
1. Large aircraft formations were very common in 40s 50s and 60s. But nowadays large flying formation displays are very rare.

2. IAF is the only airforce in South Asia to have a full 9 aircraft aerial display team. Others do only 6 aircraft display teams.
1. The US does it pretty frequently during fleet review and does it with operational units much like the Tejas squadron.

2.It would be even more disappointing if display teams could not keep formation but in this case it is simply a look at the poor formations keeping from the left side of the arrow.
 
This is how Pakistan Air Force conducted it's flypast in it's infancy during the 50s era.

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And this is how the Indian air Force carried out a simple Arrowhead Formation flypast with it's Tejas aircraft.

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This is how it's supposed to look like.

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Even Birds are known to keep a better line and formation.

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Teja speed paddle is not smooth, koi agay nikal jata ha koi peechy reh jata ha
 

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