Bangalore: With a projected demand of 1,000 new civilian aircraft in the next 10 years, both for long and short haul flights, it is time the Indian aeronautics industry “wakes up and captures the national market,” Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) G. Madhavan Nair said here on Thursday.
He was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day International Conference on Aerospace Science and Technology, organised by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL). Mr. Nair said that even if 10 per cent of the national market was captured, it would translate into billion of dollars.
The former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said that with its technological capabilities in aerospace, India should strive to become globally competitive in developing and producing aerospace systems for defence, space and civilian applications.
Mr. Kalam recommended that the NAL become the nodal agency for working on a 70-seater aircraft.
The civil aviation sector was booming and in the next 20 years air traffic would be equally divided among Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. “But there is no strong manufacturing programme for civil aviation and little appreciation for the vast opportunities that exist,” said Professor Narasimha, Chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit in the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
27/06/08 The Hindu
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