Shahjahanpur (UP), May 2 -- Fighter jets and other warplanes of the Indian Air Force (IAF) displayed their power with landing trials on the airstrip built on the Ganga Expressway in Jalalabad area of Shahjahanpur district here in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.
A three-and-a-half kilometre long airstrip built on the Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur is the first such airstrip in the country, where the fighter planes of the IAF will be able to make day and night landing.
Fighter jets of the IAF, including Rafale, Mirage and Jaguar, did an air show on the airstrip. These fighter planes did touch down practice on the expressway. The purpose of this air show is to use this expressway as an alternative runway in times of war or disaster.
The 464 km ...