Air Commodore Kalianda A. Muthana flies indigenous fighter plane for 40 minutes Bengaluru: The first Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas in Final Operational Clearance (FOC)-Standard (SP-21) took to the skies for its maiden flight in Bengaluru on Tuesday last, the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said. Piloted by Air Commodore Kalianda Appaya Muthana (Retd.), Chief Test…
Did Vajpayee name ‘Tejas’ after Tejaswini Ananth Kumar?
March 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: On Jan. 4, 2001, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee christened the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) as Tejas that means radiance in Sanskrit. At a glittering ceremony in Bengaluru, Vajpayee witnessed the flying display of the LCA’s two prototypes, Technology Demonstrator-I and Technology Demonstrator-II, for about 10 minutes and chose Tejas, one…
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