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Group Captain Kambampati Nachiketa Rao, VM is a retired officer of the Indian Air Force. [1] While carrying out an airstrike on Pakistani positions in Batalik sector during the Kargil War, his aircraft experienced an engine flameout.
Ronojoy "Rono" Dutta (born 1953) is a retired Indian aviation executive. He was the CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited, which operates IndiGo, until he retired in June 2022 and Pieter Elbers took over. [1]
InterGlobe Aviation Limited (d/b/a IndiGo), is an Indian low-cost airline headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. [5] It is the largest airline in India by passengers carried and fleet size, with a 63.6% domestic market share as of November 2024. [ 6 ]
Mahasweta Chakraborty was born in 1998, the only child of Tanuja Chakraborty, president of West Bengal's women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party. [1] [2] Having listened to stories of her parents growing up in Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas, where there are World War II hangars, she aspired to becoming a pilot. [3]
Pieter Elbers (born 11 May 1970) is a Dutch airline executive who is the CEO of IndiGo since 2022. [1] He had been president and CEO of the Netherlands' flag carrier airline, KLM , from 2014 until his appointment as CEO of IndiGo.
Her induction and training as a new Blue Angels pilot was captured in the 2024 film The Blue Angels. [10] [11] Lee's first performance as the Left Wing demo pilot with the Blue Angels took place on March 11, 2023, in El Centro, California. [1] She also performed before an estimated 100,000 people at the MCAS Beaufort Airshow on May 22 and 23 ...
James Herbert "Jack" Knight (March 14, 1892 – February 24, 1945) was an American pilot who made the first overnight transcontinental air mail delivery. Knight was part of an airmail relay team that flew 2,629 miles across the United States on February 22–23, 1921 in an effort to show that the airmail service was much faster than the railroads.
John Edward Long Jr. (November 10, 1915 – July 18, 1999 [1]) was an American pilot who is in the Guinness Book of Records for the most flight time by a pilot: over 65,000 hours (more than seven years and four months) at the time of his death. [1] [2] He began in 1933 at the age of 17, when he took his first and only flying lesson. [1]