Archive For The “Achivements” Category
Three engineering wards of ACS college built the national-award-winning model in three hours Their aircraft crashed five times in a row. The worst part is this. It crashed just ahead of an aeromodelling contest, leaving its builders with only a few hours to put it together again. The students built it in three hours straight, […]
Mr Tabrez Nadvi has been building planes since he was in 10th standard. His dream is to build a one-seater aircraft for himself and fly across the world. The 21-year-old aeronautical engineer from ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore, along with his two team members, Mr Pavan and Mr Vignesh, has won the first Boeing National Aeromodelling Competition. […]
Amidst all the fiscal chaos that the UPA government has left the country grappling with, there’s a singular reason for celebration: Airports. In its 2013 ranking of the world’s best airports, Airports Council International (ACI) the only global trade representative of the world’s airports, declared Delhi’s IGI airport as the second best airport of the […]
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh inaugurated the state‐of‐the‐art Terminal 2, or T2, at the reconstructed Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport here, saying: “This terminal is expected to establish new global benchmarks of functional efficiency and operational safety. This terminal will fulfil the expectations we have from it and make us feel proud. He added, we are […]
NEW DELHI: The civil aviation ministry has recommended Mr Prabhat Kumar, a joint secretary in the ministry, as the next Director General of Civil Aviation, two persons familiar with the development said. The move comes four days before incumbent Mr Arun Mishra retires and amid fears of a possible downgrade of the Indian aviation safety […]
As a child Mr Rohit Dey used to wonder how birds fly. Later at school he became passionate about miniature aircraft and similar devices. Today at the age of 16 he is building his own Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and has developed a quadrotor with a unique design. Mr Rohit, currently studying in 11th standard […]
If India’s missiles have successfully achieved the fire (Agni) power and long strike distance, credit to a large extent has to go to 62‐year‐old Mr Avinash Chander. A dedicated Defence scientist, Mr Chander has been stewarding the country’s long‐range Agni ballistic missile programme for a decade. In this period, the successes, especially of Agni V […]
For the first time, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has established a fellowship at an American university. The Indian space agency has set up the fellowship at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This fellowship has been established in honour of Satish Dhawan, the ISRO chairman between 1972 […]
Dr V.G. Sekaran, chief designer of long range missile Agni‐V and Director of the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL), has been appointed as Chief Controller R&D (Missiles & Strategic Systems), DRDO and Programme Director, Agni. According to a release, Dr. Sekaran, is one of the core members of the Ballistic Missile Programme. His pioneering contributions and […]
Three Indian aerospace-engineering students’ ambitious plan to help create an aircraft of the future has taken them to the finals of a global competition floated by aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Unesco. The team from SRM University, Chennai — consisting of Mr Balakrishnan Solaraju Murali, Mr Michael Thomas and Mrs Anita Mohil — is among the […]