New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) In the second accident involving the frontline Sukhoi-30MKI of the Indian Air Force (IAF) this year, one of the Russian-origin combat jets crashed Monday near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, but both the pilots ejected in time and were safe, an official said.
The Sukhoi-30 MKI, belonging to 31 Squadron based in Bareilly [...]
Pune, Nov.25 (ANI): As President Pratibha Patil undertook her maiden flight wearing a G-Suit in a Sukhoi fighter jet from Sukhoi-30 MKI here on Wednesday morning, the Lohegaon Air Force base was all decked up for the sortie.
After reaching the Air Force base at about nine o’clock in the morning, the President, who is [...]
Lohegaon (Maharashtra), Nov 25 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said Indian women too can fly fighter jets if chance was given to them.
Addressing a press conference here after successfully completing a record sortie in Sukhoi 30 Mki aircraft, President Patil said: “They are some technical requirements and qualifications to be completed. And also, [...]
Pune, Nov 25 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil, who made history Wednesday by becoming the world’s first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, descended from an Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30 MKI in a G-suit instead of her trademark sari.
An elated Patil flashed a victory sign and a beaming smile as she alighted after [...]
Pune, Nov 25 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil, who made history Wednesday by becoming the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, alighted from an Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30 MKI in a G-suit after successfully completing her 30-minute sortie.
The flight commanded by Wing Commander S. Sajan went off smoothly in the slightly chilly [...]
Pune, Nov.25 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil created history on Wednesday by becoming the first serving female head of state to fly in an Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft from the Lohegaon Air Force Base here. What was even more remarkable was the fact that she achieved the feat at the ripe age [...]
Pune, Nov 25 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil, 74, Wednesday became the first woman president in the world to fly in an Indian Air Force fighter jet Sukhoi-30 MKI.
Pune, Nov.25 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil is all set to enter the record books by flying Sukhoi-30 on Wednesday from Pune Airbase, an attempt which is likely to register her name in Guinness Book of World Records.
President Patil, 74, is scheduled to fly in the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) most potent multi-role combat [...]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) vice chief, Air Marshal P.K. Barbora Thursday offered his apologies if anyone’s feelings have been hurt by his remarks on induction of women fighter pilots, and stressed that the views were his own and not an official policy.
In a statement, Barbora clarified [...]
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Pratibha Patil is 74 years old, the president of the country and she will do what no woman has done before when she flies in a Sukhoi, a frontline Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet Nov 25.
IAF vice chief Air Vice Marshal P.K. Barbora Tuesday said the force was ‘proud [...]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (ANI): The Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik said here on Friday that President Pratibha Patil is medically fit to fly in a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft, but would undertake the sortie only if found fit on [...]
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil will make a sortie in the Indian Air Force’s frontline Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet Nov 25, air force chief P.V.Naik said Tuesday.
‘The president will fly in the Su-30 MKI Nov 25 from Lohegaon airbase (Pune),’ Air Chief Marshal Naik told reporters.
The 74-year-old Patil, who is the supreme [...]
Hindon, (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 6 (ANI): Officers and air warriors of the Indian Air Force (IAF) took part in the full dress rehearsal on Tuesday ahead of the 77th Air Force Day celebrations, to be held on October 8.
The IAF was officially established on October 8, 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the Indian [...]
