New Delhi. When you look at the sky this morning, you may see a fighter plane flying at an altitude of just 500 to 1000 meters. Nine fighter planes and three transport aircraft will be part of the longest flypast of the Indian Airforce. This flypast will cover an air distance of 2570 km from Srinagar in the north to Coimbatore in the south and 1966 km from Guwahati in the east to Ahmedabad in the west. This is being done in the honor of the doctors, medical staff, people involved in the cleanliness, and the police involved in the war against Coronavirus.
This is the first time the three armies have come forward to honor the Warriors facing the virus. The country’s Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat announced this on Friday.
From 9 am, the helicopter’s air salute will
shower flowers at the Police War Memorial in Delhi at 9 am. Between 10 and 10:30 am, Corona hospitals across the country will also be showered with flowers through Army, Airforce, and Navy helicopters. These include AIIMS of Delhi, Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital, GTB Hospital, Lok Nayak Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital, Gangaram Hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Max Saket, Rohini Hospital, Apelo Indraprastha and Army Hospital Research and Referral.
Military Bands Outside Hospitals Military bands
will play patriotic tunes outside individual hospitals scheduled for Corona patients nationwide between 10 am and 10:30 am. It will be in honor of doctors and medical staff.
These aircraft
will take part in the Sukhoi 30, MiG 29, and Jaguar fighter plane air salutes included in the flypast. The C-130J Super Hercules Transport aircraft will also be involved. This transport aircraft can fly for 10 to 12 hours. The flypast is happening for the first time in a day’s practice. The US did a flypast a few days ago in New York in honor of Corona Warriors, for which it practiced for a month.
The fighter plane will pass over the assembly of all cities
This will be the fly past the state assembly at all places except Delhi and Mumbai.
10.15 am to 10.30 am in Delhi.
At Marine Drive in Mumbai at 10.30 am.
10.30 am in Jaipur.
Guwahati 10.30 am.
11.25 am in Ahmedabad.
Patna at 11.37 am.
Lucknow at 12.20.
After Srinagar will reach Chandigarh, then Delhi, Jaipur and Bhopal Transport Aircraft
Transport Aircraft C-130 will start from Srinagar’s Dal Lake at 7.25 am. At 8.55 am, it will reach Sukna Lake in Chandigarh, Rajpath in Delhi at 10.15 am, Jai Mahal in Jaipur at 10.49 am and it will come to the big pond in Bhopal at 11.51 am. Then at 13.22 via Mumbai’s Marine Drive, 14.40 Hyderabad’s Hussainasagar Lake at 15.46, Vidhansauda in Bengaluru and then Vivekananda Rock at Kanyakumari at 16.55 Thiruvananthapuram Secretariat will end at 5.11 minutes and then flypast at Sulur Coimbatore at 5.55.
Lights on Navy ships will be lighted on
Sunday between 7:30 am to 11:59 pm on five Navy ships stationed near Mumbai’s Gate of India. Banners with ‘India Salutes Corona Warriors’ will be seen on these ships of the Western Command of the Navy. Cyron will ring at 7:30 pm and fireworks will be displayed. A similar view will also be seen on warships deployed in Visakhapatnam, Porbandar, Karwar, Chennai, Kochi, and Port Blair. Coast Guard ships will also be lighted at 24 different places like Porbandar, Ratnagiri, Goa, Port Blair.
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