Abdul Kalam, India's president
Abdul Kalam, India's president and supreme commander of armed forces, has become the first president of any country to fly a Sukhoi Su-30MKI. Kalam, 75, whom Indians call their "missile man" because of his development work, climbed to 20,000 ft. as a passenger in a jet flown by an Indian air force...
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