Army Adventure Wing (Skybirds) comprises of seven team members, the Team Leader in the rank of major and the rest are corporals and sergeants. Some of the team members have been flying for a while, 2-3 years now but, as they claim "it has been an uphill task, since paragliding in India is not a mainstream sport in flying. In 2007 the team got a shot in the arm when we started training under a qualified instructor". Last year they took part in the Pre-World Cup held in India and this comp will be the first time the Indian paragliding team would participate in a foreign country. "Slowly this team is begining to take shape, not worried bout the results at the moment, learning is what we aim at" claims major Arjan Singh Bedi (but this might be just smokescreen ;)
We, and by "we" I mean the female part of the organization, are waiting impatiently for a photo of the team in their uniforms.
And for the time being we can let our imagination go wild:
Indian army to the right, on the elephant. To the left Alexander the Great. Maybe some Macedonians will come as well.
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