Visakhapatnam: Hindustan Aeronautics will soon roll out India’s Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, LCA architect and D.S. Kothari Chair at Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, Kota Harinarayana has said.
This year HAL will make two aircraft and will progressively increase the number, he said. Tejas will be used for training and simulation based on the inputs of pilots for further improvements.
Dr. Harinarayana was here to deliver the Dr.V. Bhujanga Rao Endowment Lecture at GITAM University on Thursday.
In an interaction with The Hindu later, he said the next step would be developing a more powerful engine G 414 that will power the second variant Tejas Mark II. It may take another four, five years for its development and launch.
Dr. Harinarayana puts India on a par with Europe in aviation research and technology development. “We are definitely ahead of China which still does not have fourth generation aircraft. It is also putting in lot of money into technology development. But we are behind the USA that mastered Stealth technology and we are still working on it,” he observed.
08/02/14 GV Prasada Sarma/The Hindu
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This year HAL will make two aircraft and will progressively increase the number, he said. Tejas will be used for training and simulation based on the inputs of pilots for further improvements.
Dr. Harinarayana was here to deliver the Dr.V. Bhujanga Rao Endowment Lecture at GITAM University on Thursday.
In an interaction with The Hindu later, he said the next step would be developing a more powerful engine G 414 that will power the second variant Tejas Mark II. It may take another four, five years for its development and launch.
Dr. Harinarayana puts India on a par with Europe in aviation research and technology development. “We are definitely ahead of China which still does not have fourth generation aircraft. It is also putting in lot of money into technology development. But we are behind the USA that mastered Stealth technology and we are still working on it,” he observed.
08/02/14 GV Prasada Sarma/The Hindu
