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Film star Shahid Kapoor, who is playing the role of a fighter pilot in his forthcoming film Mausam, will fly the American F-16 Super Viper combat aircraft at the Aero India show in Bangalore next week.
"Shahid Kapoor will fly the aircraft on February 12 during the five-day air show," Lockheed Martin officials said here.
"It's a huge honour and privilege and, at the same time, probably the coolest thing I have done yet in life. I am super excited about it," Kapoor, who will be the first Bollywood actor to fly F-16, said.
A confident Shahid Kapoor said he has successfully undergone several tests and hoped to sail through the remaining ones.
Kapoor has undergone rigorous training for the last one month.
Most of these tests are related to flying at a very high velocity and making sure the person doesn't suffer from motion sickness.
Kapoor will have to pass a flight simulation test before he gets into the cockpit which will be like flying the actual flight in the same conditions. He will fly the plane from the Indian Air Force Station Yelahanka as co-pilot, as a part of the show from February 9 to 13.
Lockheed Martin is the manufacturer of F-16 and is in the race for supplying 126 Multirole Combat Aircraft to the Indian Air Force. Kapoor, 29, joins the likes of celebrities such as Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, wing commander Rakesh Sharma--the first Indian to have gone in space and MP Navin Jindal who have flown as pillions in two-seater versions of fighters.
The movie is being directed by Kapoor's father Pankaj in which he would play a fighter pilot opposite Sonam Kapoor.
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