Bangalore: Promoters of India's proposed maiden regional civil aircraft are looking at enhancing its design range to 3200 km and also its seating capacity to 110, a key official behind the project said today.
The high powered committee on National Civil Aircraft Development (NCAD) has till now said it is looking to design and develop a 70-90 seater aircraft with a design range of 2,500 km.
"Now we are looking at up to 110 (seating capacity)", said A R Upadhya, a member of HPC, who recently retired as Director of National Aerospace Laboratories belonging to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is spearheading the proposed project.
"We are looking at increasing the range from 2,500 km to 3,200 km so that it will have some international operations as well (in addition to domestic one)", Upadhya said at the inaugural function of fifth symposium on applied aerodynamics and design of aerospace vehicles (SAROD-2011) here. "We are looking at standard configuration as well as long range configuration with increase in capacity in wing area...," he added.
The HPC, chaired by former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO) G Madhavan Nair, has set a target of lower costs of acquisition, maintenance and operations and fuel consumption by at least 25 per cent in each of these areas vis-a-vis this proposed aircraft.
16/11/11 PTI/Economic Times
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