{"id":37,"date":"2011-02-10T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:04:10","slug":"parajumpers-make-a-7500-ft-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Parajumpers make a 7,500-ft landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chhatri maata ki jai!&#8221; That was their last cry as they jumped out of the MI-8 helicopter flying at 7,500 feet above the ground. The 14-member Akash Ganga parajumping troop of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made a spectacular landing at Aero India 2011 here on Wednesday.<br \/>\nWing Commander A Marwah, 49, was the first to land on the ground after manoeuvring a three-minute ride through the clear sky. The first 30 seconds was complete free fall, a fling down at 120 miles\/hour. &#8220;We enjoyed it completely. It was my best jump so far,&#8221; Marwah told The Times of India.<br \/>\nThis avid parachutist, presently serving DRDO, has been into aero stunts for the past 21 years now.<br \/>\nHe was up there, gliding through the few birds and clear sky. But what caught his attention during the entire stunt was the view of the roads and vehicles below. &#8220;I could see the traffic piled up on the road. Coming down, it felt like I was landing into a chaotic zone, and I must admit that at one point, I even wondered if my stunt would be visible to all at the venue.<br \/>\n10\/02\/11 Aarthi R\/<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bangalore\/Parajumpers-make-a-7500-ft-landing\/articleshow\/7463816.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chhatri maata ki jai!&#8221; That was their last cry as they jumped out of the MI-8 helicopter flying at 7,500 feet above the ground. The 14-member Akash Ganga parajumping troop of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made a spectacular landing at Aero India 2011 here on Wednesday. Wing Commander A Marwah, 49, was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-parajumping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}