Archive For May, 2013
After having received the Flight Readiness Review Board’s (FRRB) clearance for the flight, the most advanced edition of India’s Light Combat Aircraft’s (LCA), Tejas, limited series production‐8 (LSP‐8) completed its maiden flight. The flight happened without the aircraft having completed high‐speed taxi trials, which is considered mandatory. Officials, however, maintain that with the confidence gained […]
While work on obtaining the final operational clearance for India’s light combat aircraft (LCA) ‐ Tejas ‐ is going on in full swing, agencies working on the project, parallelly, are vying to increase the indigenisation aspect of the aircraft. Sources in the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), which is the nodal agency for the project, said: […]