{"id":619849,"date":"2023-11-28T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619849"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T07:29:06","slug":"historic-day-pm-modi-flies-light-combat-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/historic-day-pm-modi-flies-light-combat-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Day! PM Modi Flies Light Combat Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic moment for the Indian Air Force (IAF) Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Prime Minister to fly the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) \u2018Tejas\u2019 when he co-piloted a trainer version of the aircraft on Saturday. The sortie was in the twin-seater trainer variant which is being operated by the IAF and the navy. <\/p>\n<p>He got the first-hand experience of Made in India LCA when he was accompanied by an Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot attired in a G-suite. The LCA took off from the airport of the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic moment for the Indian Air Force (IAF) Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Prime Minister to fly the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) \u2018Tejas\u2019 when he co-piloted a trainer version of the aircraft on Saturday. The sortie was in the twin-seater trainer variant which is being operated by the IAF and the navy. He got the first-hand experience of Made in India LCA when he was accompanied by an Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot attired in a G-suite. The LCA took off from the airport of the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Bengaluru.<\/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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619849","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=619849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}