Parwinder SandhuNew Delhi, Oct. 23 -- When Jakkula Tejasvi Reddy met the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, during his "At Home" interaction with NCC cadets at the Republic Day Camp (RDC) 2026 in New Delhi, she shared a dream that seemed almost impossible: to fly alongside him one day.
Months later, on October 20, the final-year engineering student from Hyderabad saw that dream take flight, becoming the first NCC cadet in the country to undertake a sortie with a serving Air Chief, aboard a Kiran aircraft at the Air Force Academy, Dundigal.
For Tejasvi, a Senior Wing cadet of the NCC Air Wing, the 35-to-40-minute flight was far more than an extraordinary aviation experience. It was the culmination of a wish voiced during a...