Archive For January, 2018
The so-called “space billionaires”—Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk—imagine a day when people will live and work in space, gradually transforming humanity into a multi-planet species. The next step in that direction is the development of a space tourism industry, and that’s about to become a reality. The rich will go first, of course, paying […]
The 32,000-strong collective of Aero- Modellers in the country just got an assurance from the Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mr Jayant Sinha: The government will consider formulating exclusive Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR) to govern the sport, far less stringent than the rules drafted for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles classified as drones. The Aero-modellers had […]
India’s first indigenously built short-haul civilian aircraft Saras is ready to make its maiden test flight. The 14-seater light aircraft successfully completed low-speed and high-speed taxi trials near Bengaluru last week, according to top sources at the National Aeronautical Laboratory (NAL). Saras can be used in a variety of roles such as air ambulance, maritime […]
Revealing that India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier will be ready by 2020-end, Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba also said that the “form and fit” of the second indigenous carrier with a conventional propulsion has been finalised. “The (project of) indigenous aircraft carrier is progressing well and the ship will join the Navy by the end of 2020,” Admiral Lanba said at an annual press conference of the […]
For the first time, an IL-78 refueller aircraft of the Indian Air Force carried out air-to-air refuelling of the Embraer transport aircraft that has the indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system Netra mounted on it. “A mere 10- minute in-flight refuelling can generate four more hours of flight. The achievement has given a […]