Kanpur: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) will on June 1 become the country's first academic institution to offer a helicopter ferry service. To be run by Pawan Hans from the institute's runway, the facility would initially offer flights to Lucknow. It would be extremely handy for IIT guests, faculty, academicians, students, local industrialists and others willing to fly to Lucknow.
The first flight would take off from the IIT-Kanpur runway on June 1 and the seven-seater helicopter will have a capacity to carry five passengers at a time.
Merchant's Chamber of Uttar Pradesh, which is the driving force behind the launch of the helicopter service, has termed it as "an epic moment in the history of the IIT-K and the industrial city".
29/05/13 Abhinav Malhotra/Times of India
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The first flight would take off from the IIT-Kanpur runway on June 1 and the seven-seater helicopter will have a capacity to carry five passengers at a time.
Merchant's Chamber of Uttar Pradesh, which is the driving force behind the launch of the helicopter service, has termed it as "an epic moment in the history of the IIT-K and the industrial city".
29/05/13 Abhinav Malhotra/Times of India
