{"id":80,"date":"2011-02-12T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T11:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-02-12T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T11:44:17","slug":"juhu-lad-may-fly-fighter-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Juhu lad may fly fighter plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: For 21-year-old Juhu resident Shaival Rajiv Sheth, aviation has always been a passion, but he has never been anywhere close to even dreaming of flying a fighter jet.<br \/>\nThis youth&#8217;s wildest dream might come true tomorrow at the Bangalore Aero India 2011, provided he is able to pass one last test today.<br \/>\nIn the final test today before a panel of expert judges, Sheth will have to flawlessly fly a virtual plane in a simulation cockpit.<br \/>\n&#8220;Every button, every lever, every switch and even the experience will be exactly like the actual thing. It&#8217;s like flying the plane without ever taking off the ground,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nSheth is one of the five finalists from among over 5,000 contestants across India who entered the competition, by answering a set of questions and playing a flight simulation game online.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m a diehard aviation fan and wanted to join the National Defence Academy when I was a boy, but was unable to do so.<br \/>\n12\/02\/11 Otiena Ellwand\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/120211-fighter-jet-Juhu-Shaival-Rajiv-Sheth.htm\">MiD DAY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: For 21-year-old Juhu resident Shaival Rajiv Sheth, aviation has always been a passion, but he has never been anywhere close to even dreaming of flying a fighter jet. This youth&#8217;s wildest dream might come true tomorrow at the Bangalore Aero India 2011, provided he is able to pass one last test today. In the [&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":[11],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-defence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}