{"id":353730,"date":"2020-05-28T09:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353730"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:27:09","slug":"iaf-gets-second-tejas-squadron-air-chief-shows-the-way-with-solo-sortie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-gets-second-tejas-squadron-air-chief-shows-the-way-with-solo-sortie\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF gets second Tejas squadron; Air Chief shows the way with solo sortie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement of confidence in the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), the Indian Air Force (IAF) boss, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, climbed alone into the cockpit of a Tejas fighter on Wednesday, revved up its powerful turbofan engine and took off for a solo flight around Coimbatore.<\/p>\n<p>Air force chiefs, including Pakistan\u2019s recently, often go up for a spin to boost the morale of their fighter pilots. But they usually do so in twin-seat aircraft, with the squadron\u2019s top fighter jock controlling things from the front seat. Bhadauria \u2014 a veteran test pilot who has flown multiple fighters during his 40-year career \u2014 had the confidence to fly alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement of confidence in the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), the Indian Air Force (IAF) boss, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, climbed alone into the cockpit of a Tejas fighter on Wednesday, revved up its powerful turbofan engine and took off for a solo flight around Coimbatore. Air force chiefs, including Pakistan\u2019s recently, often go up for a spin to boost the morale of their fighter pilots. But they usually do so in twin-seat aircraft, with the squadron\u2019s top fighter jock controlling things from the front seat. Bhadauria \u2014 a veteran test pilot who has flown multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}