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I was fiddling with Google Maps and chanced upon this high-res image of the Delhi International Airport Palam AFS. Pretty neat. You can see the runway numbers really clearly..10 and 28, the second runway is 09 and 27 and an aircraft taking off (or landing) from (on) 28, another taxiing towards the same. You can also see the aerodrome and lots of planes. Neat. We need high-res shots of Bangalore and fast :) A zoomed out shot is available here.

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Managed to watch The Italian Job on Saturday and loved every bit of it. Neat, slick, fast, cool movie. And it had Charlize Theron. :D

Happy Indpendence Day!

Update, 29 Sept : That shot is apparently the Palam Air Base according to this article on The Register. Explains the blue hangars as well. Now I'm confused.

Following up on my earlier post, I found this really well written article on Airports, specifically Changi on Business World.

An excerpt :

The sceptics will jump in and say: Singapore is a rich country, why compare India with it? It is a sobering fact that Singapore got independence in 1957. It was a poor nation, smaller in size than any Indian state and had no natural resources. Even today, it has to buy water for everyday use from across the border in Malaysia. When Singapore had less than 5 million people - most too poor to travel - they had decided that they must create a world-class airline. That was the beginning of Singapore Airlines. That world-class airline needed a world-class airport. The resolve paid off.