Archive For May, 2014
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. […]
India’s Basant Aerospace Private Limited has signed two agreements worth $55 million as part of a general offset contract with Air India, according to itar tass.The first contract worth $43 million will allow the establishment of a service centre in India for the restoration and repair of the Zhuk-ME airborne radar produced by Fazotron-NIIP. And […]
Emerging economy leaders or BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations is forecast to lead the civil aviation market in the next ten years. According to a study by Oxford Economics and commissioned by Amadeus, states that Asia would become the growth leader in outbound travel expenditure overtaking Europe by 2023. APAC outbound travel is expected […]
Thanks to a spurt in wind power installations in March – estimated to be over 800 MW – the total wind power capacity added to the country in 2013-14 has come up to 2,126 MW, a figure that has surprised many. Installations in 2012-13 were at 1700 MW. Only in early February, the Ministry of […]
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) has posted its best ever turnover of Rs.15,180 crore in 2013-14. The turnover is an increase of 6 per cent over its last year’s figure of Rs.14,324 crore. 38 per cent rise in operating profit The operating profit of Rs.1,651 crore is 38.3 per cent higher than the Rs.1,194 crore it […]
India successfully test-fired its own supersonic surface-to-air Akash missile, local media reports. The launch was carried out from the test range at Chandipur in Odisha. The Akash missiles successfully hit an unmanned aircraft, Lakshya. The Akash-class missiles, weighing more than 700 kilograms and capable of carrying up to 55 kilograms of payload, can fly at […]
The country’s second largest hypersonic wind tunnel facility was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The 0.5 meter facility is next only to the one meter hyper sonic wind tunnel facility at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Kerala. Built over a period of two years at a cost of Rs 6 […]
India’s huge Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV- Mark III) will soar into the sky with a crew capsule from Sriharikota in June, signalling that the country is getting ready to send its own astronauts into space. It will be an experimental mission and it will carry no astronauts. This crew capsule will return to the […]
Researchers have developed a fist-sized robot surgeon that slides into the body through an incision in the belly button and can help perform surgery on astronauts in deep space. After the robot enters the abdominal cavity – which has been filled with inert gas to make room for it to work – the robot can […]