PV Sindhu to fly LCA Tejas at Aero India today
Team Udayavani, Feb 23, 2019, 6:07 AM IST
Bengaluru: Badminton sensation P V Sindhu will fly in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas at the ongoing Aero India air show here, an official said on Friday, February 22.
A Defence Ministry official said that Sindhu will co-pilot the Tejas aircraft as part of the Women’s Day to be observed at the air show on Saturday.
Women’s Day, which is being observed on Saturday at the expo, will showcase women’s achievements in the aerospace sector and all-female crews will fly a few aircraft as part of the air display.
Three women IAF fighter pilots are also expected to fly the Hawk-I advanced jet trainer of BAE Systems plc and an upgraded version of the Russian-made MiG-21.
Women achievers in the sector will be felicitated on the occasion and a book and film on ‘Women in Aviation’ will be released.
Tejas, built by the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), is a single-engine multirole light fighter.
The aircraft had received its final operational clearance (FOC) on Wednesday, February 20 from military aviation regulator Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (Cemilac) for induction into the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a weaponised fighter jet in its operational fleet. The homegrown aircraft was flown by the Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat on Thursday, February 21 who hailed it as a wonderful aircraft.
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