Children waved the Tricolour and the Indian Air Force band played a happy note to welcome the aircraft -- from a Cessna to Chetak choppers -- that touched down at Sonegaon airport.
Air Race India 2003 was India's tribute to the intrepid brothers whose Wright Flyer took off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, in 1903.
An exhausted but happy Captain V K Singh and his co-pilot N Chaturvedi after finishing the gruelling race.
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