A total of 14 aircraft will be involved in the celebrations on the day.
Two groups of one Chinook and two Apaches each will fly over eastern and western Singapore during the Fly Our Flag segment.Two AH-64D Apache helicopters will arrive over the buildings of the Downtown Core before making mock attack runs during the Total Defence 40 dynamic display segment.
Major Ingkiriwang Reeve, the officer commanding of the RSAF’s 120 Squadron and the lead pilot of the Apaches, said that the main challenge was that they would be flying at relatively low altitudes and in close proximity to the Chinook helicopters carrying the state flag. The air component of the NDP will start with the SAF’s Red Lions team jumping out over the Padang and landing by parachute during the pre-parade segment.
Captain Ong Yuan Zhuan, who is the deputy flying display marshall in the air participation committee for NDP 2024, said that one of the considerations of Fly Our Flag and the Island Flypast was to try to fly over more of Singapore and its major heartland areas.The helicopters with the state flag will fly closer to Bedok and Jurong, while the jets will be seen nearer to Clementi, Queenstown and Bendemeer.
Another pair of jets will then fly in from behind the National Gallery Singapore and perform a vertical climb to an altitude of 3,000m, demonstrating the agility and capability of the F-16.
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