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Do you know about the connection between India’s first pilot’s licence and the first flight of Air India? The story goes back to #TDTY in 1929.

On February 10, 1929, JRD ‘Jeh’ Tata earned the first commercial aviator's certificate in India, fulfilling a dream that he had nurtured since he was 15 and setting the stage for the much bigger dream of giving wings to the nation.

Jeh not only set up India’s first airline -- Tata Air Service, which later became Air India -- but also went on to pilot its inaugural flight. On an October dawn in 1932, he soared into the sky from Karachi in a Puss Moth, towards Bombay at a “dazzling 100 miles an hour”.

All he was armed with was a pair of goggles, his trusted slide rule that he always carried on flights, “a silent prayer”, and his little blue and gold aviator’s certificate that bore the Number 1.

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