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Sukumar Das: The pilot pushing boundaries in Indian aero sports

Sukumar Das: The pilot pushing boundaries in Indian aero sports

by Vikram Sharma | Feb 11, 2025

(February 11, 2025) Back in 2018, when aero sports pilot Sukumar Das took off from Chonburi to Pattaya in Thailand on his para motor, he was looking forward to an experience like no other. It turned out to be one, albeit with a deadly twist. Faced with a technical...
Gopichand Thotakura: Meet India’s first space tourist

Gopichand Thotakura: Meet India’s first space tourist

by Amrita Priya | Sep 13, 2024

(September 13, 2024) The ‘majestic blue ball’ is how Gopichand Thotakura described Earth as he saw it for the very first time from space. The 30-year-old scripted history by becoming the first Indian space tourist as he took off in Blue Origin’s New...
Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla: Meet the second Indian to travel to space

Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla: Meet the second Indian to travel to space

by Amrita Priya | Aug 15, 2024

(August 15, 2024) It was in the April of 1984 that Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma along with two cosmonauts from the Soviet Union (flight engineer Gennady Strekalov and commander Yury Malyshev) flew on board Soyuz T-11 to the space station Salyut 7. This historic moment...
Capt Aarohi Pandit: Crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean solo as the world’s youngest pilot

Capt Aarohi Pandit: Crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean solo as the world’s youngest pilot

by Amrita Priya | Nov 19, 2023

(November 19, 2023) It was a beautiful evening with the sunset’s orange tint slowly turning into an alluring shade of purple and blue, and casting its magical spell on the blanket of snow beneath as Captain Aarohi Pandit was gearing up to land Pipistrel Sinus...
Top Gun: Capt Monicaa Khanna, the pilot who dodged a disaster with her right ‘approach’

Top Gun: Capt Monicaa Khanna, the pilot who dodged a disaster with her right ‘approach’

by Vikram Sharma | Dec 6, 2022

(December 6, 2022) On June 19 this year, when one of the engines of the Delhi-bound Boeing 737 SpiceJet aircraft caught fire mid-air, moments after take-off from Patna airport, the top most priority before Captain Monicaa Khanna, the Pilot-in-Command of the aircraft,...

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