The Storied Career Of India's Oldest Fighter Pilot Who Turns 100 Tomorrow

On August 5, 1940, a young Sikh pilot took off on his first training flight in a Tiger Moth aircraft from the Walton airfield in Lahore with his two British instructors.

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