Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar (Retd.)

Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar was born in 1941, graduated with a science degree from Central College, Bangalore and was commissioned in the Flying Branch of the Indian Air Force in 1962. After specializing as an experimental test pilot in 1972, he spent the next three decades participating in numerous indigenous aeronautical development projects both as a test pilot and programme manager. He retired in 23 as the Director, Aeronautical Development Agency after spending his last nine years of service working in the LCA project.