Aarohi Pandit to re-enact India's first commercial flight flown by JRD Tata in 1932
The Hindu
In 2019, the young women pilot became the world's first woman to cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Greenland icecap, solo in a light sport aircraft
Aarohi Pandit, the world's first woman pilot tosolo in a light sport aircraft (LSA), is all set to re-enact on 15th of this month India's first commercial flight flown by the legendry J.R.D. Tata in 1932.
On October 15, 1932, J.R.D. Tata, known as the father of Indian civil aviation, piloted the first-ever flight of the Tata Air Services from Karachi to Mumbai, carrying mail in a single-engine De Havilland Puss Moth aircraft.
On October 15, Aarohi Pandit will take off from the Bhuj runway that was rebuilt by the women of Madhapar village within 72 hours during the Indo-Pak war, refuel at Ahmedabad and land at India's first civilian airport in Juhu (Mumbai), expedition organiser Indian Women Pilots' Association (IWPA) said in a release.