{"id":413046,"date":"2021-05-01T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413046"},"modified":"2021-05-01T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T06:04:23","slug":"indian-air-force-presses-50-transport-aircraft-and-20-helicopters-in-covid-pandemic-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-air-force-presses-50-transport-aircraft-and-20-helicopters-in-covid-pandemic-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Air Force presses 50 transport aircraft and 20 helicopters in COVID pandemic duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has ordered round-the-clock readiness of the entire heavy-lift fleet and substantial numbers of medium-lift fleets to operate in a hub and spoke model.<\/p>\n<p>In support of the national effort to combat COVID-19 second wave, the IAF fleet is operating from a hub with sorties within India and abroad<\/p>\n<p>IAF in a statement on Friday said, \u201cPresently 8x C-17, 4 x IL 76, 8 x C130, 20 x An-32, 1 x DO &#8211; 228 Dornier aircraft and 20 Helicopters have been tasked for COVID Tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has ordered round-the-clock readiness of the entire heavy-lift fleet and substantial numbers of medium-lift fleets to operate in a hub and spoke model. In support of the national effort to combat COVID-19 second wave, the IAF fleet is operating from a hub with sorties within India and abroad IAF in a statement on Friday said, \u201cPresently 8x C-17, 4 x IL 76, 8 x C130, 20 x An-32, 1 x DO &#8211; 228 Dornier aircraft and 20 Helicopters have been tasked for COVID Tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413046","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}