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Leading From The Front!
SP’s Aviation
|January 2017
The positive results of the solo flight on MiG-21 Type 96 by Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, Chief of the Air Staff, IAF, are immense and cannot be quantified or measured.
ON THE OCCASION OF New Year’s day this year, Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa took over as the 25th Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Indian Air Force (IAF), from Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha who proceeded on retirement. Within two weeks after taking over as the CAS, Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa scripted history of sorts when he, while on an official visit to Air Force Station, Utarlai in Rajasthan, undertook a solo flight on the MiG-21 Type 96 combat aircraft of the IAF. This was the very first visit by the CAS to a forward operational base in the Western sector after he took over his new appointment. The stated aim of the visit was “to assess operational readiness and review the morale of the personnel stationed there”.
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