President Droupadi Murmu today took her maiden fighter jet flight.
She was seen wearing an anti-gravity suit before stepping into a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft at the Tezpur Air Force Station in Assam, a strategic air base.
The President, currently on a visit to Assam, is the Supreme Commander of the three services.
In 2009, former president Pratibha Patil had flown in the frontline fighter aircraft.
The Sukhoi-30 MKI is a twin-seater multirole fighter jet developed by Russia’s Sukhoi and built under licence by India’s aerospace giant Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.