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Indian Air Force Round the World Microlight Expedition Reaches The Western Hemesphere2007-07-05 The Indian Air Force's microlight aircraft presently on ‘Round the World' expedition entered into the western hemisphere by crossing the International Date Line (IDL) this morning IST. The microlight aircraft took of from Anader in Russia and landed today at Nome in Alaska after crossing the IDL at about 0915 IST this morning and thereby gaining one day.It may be recalled that an IAF microlight expedition has been undertaken on the occasion of Force’s platinum jubilee year and was flagged off on 01 Jun 07 from Air Force Station Hindan near Delhi. The expedition flown by Wg Cdr Rahul Monga and Wg Cdr Anil Kumar also aims to set a new world record by competing in 300 Kg weight category microlight of make CSTW advance. On being asked on telephone how it felt to cross over the IDL, Wg Cdr Monga answered in stoic vein saying "We have got one more day in our expedition to live it fully". The expedition has so far flown and crossed over Myanmar, Thailand, China and Russia and in doing so they have covered the most difficult terrain and successfully negotiated bad weather conditions. The weather over China due monsoons was particularly bad. The terrain of Eastern Russia and freezing Siberia was covered successfully. Though the expedition is a few days behind scheduled due to bad weather, the crew and the team at operations-centre is very confident of catching up and setting the new world record. The expedition is being tracked in its operations-centre at New Delhi by a satellite tracking system called I-Trax with a satellite tracker on board. The progress of the expedition can be seen on satellite picture on website called web sentinel.net or even on IAF's Official website by opening the expedition’s link. The microlight would be undergoing scheduled maintenance at Nome in Alaska after having completed in 80 hours of flying. Sponsored Links
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