Indian President Creates History, Flies Sukhoi
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 1:09 pm
NEW DELHI: Indian President Pratibha Patil did today what no woman before her has ever done – fly in a Sukhoi-30MKI, an Indian Air Force fighter jet. The Sukhoi took off from the Lohegaon Air Force base near Pune and will do a sortie of 30-minute.
The air force base is all decked up for the sortie on Wednesday morning, IAF Wing Commander T.K. Singha told. Upon her arrival around 9 am, Patil, the supreme commander of the armed forces, was accorded a ceremonial guard of honour by the air-warriors. She will then have breakfast since she cannot fly on an empty stomach.
The president, who is 74 years old, will then change into a special G-Suit (anti-gravity suit), which helps the flier withstand high gravitational pressure by preventing excessive blood from flowing to the brain.
To make the experience a memorable one for President Patil, two more Sukhois will fly beside her aircraft to enable her to gain an experience of how fighter jets look in flight at that altitude and at such high speeds.
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