The history of commercial and civil aviation in India dates back to 18 February, 1911. Frenchman Henri Pequet flew a biplane from Allahabad to Naini with about 6,500 letters to deliver. He covered the 10 km distance between the two cities in 13 minutes. This is considered the world’s first official airmail service. In 1912, Indian Air Services Ltd collaborated …
Rocketgrams were launched in India to deliver mail and parcels
Rocketgrams are mail delivered by firing crude rockets towards their destinations. Stephen Hector Taylor-Smith, an Indian aerospace engineer, launched the first rocketgram in the 1930s. In the ten-year span of his experiments he made around 270 launches. The first successful livestock dispatch was of a cock and a hen, Adam and Eve, across the Damodar River …