India defense minister Rajnath shares cockpit of Tejas LCA in Bengaluru
(WorldNews India)

Bengaluru/New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh undertook a maiden sortie on a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), fully dressed in a G-Suit, from Bengaluru on Thursday. Singh, who became the first Defence Minister of the country to fly in a Tejas, took to the cockpit of the fighter jet with a pilot in the front seat. `Singh is the first Raksha Mantri (Defence Minister) to fly the LCA. National Flight Test Centre Director Air-Vice Marshal N. Tiwari piloted the fourth-generation fighter trainer, with the 68-year-old Singh behind him in the glass cockpit,` a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) told IANS here. The fighter jet, a twin-seater trainer...