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The Bharat Bhushan guy is bullshitting, mischievously hinting and trying to pin the blame on the deceased pilot.
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This airport should not have been allowing flights to land during bad conditions.

This days weather radars can tell you in advance if storms are headed your way or not.
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It's easy to blame the pilots because they're dead. The flight data recorder should have all the info needed. The Mangalore accident in 2010 should have been a wake up call. The Ministry of Civil Aviation needs to be raked over hot coals and people need to be fired. 168 dead in 10 years is negligence and deserves nothing short of firing squad.
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My assumption is this is a combination of bad weather (storm in the vicinity, wind shear etc), strong tail winds leading to higher than average landing speed, most importantly unstabilised approach and finally aquaplaning due to waterlogged runway after touchdown (and possibly failure of thrust reversal braking upon touchdown) led to runway excursion and steep drop from the table-top runway at Kozikhode. Preliminary analysis/playback of flight data from flight tracking websites show that the aircraft did not maintain at least one of the variables stable i.e., speed (out of speed, descent rate, vertical/lateral flight path) and as a result was not in stable landing configuration. Unstabilised approaches account for most approach and landing accidents.

Kozikhode runway 10-28 landing roll is 2860m; due to unstablised approach the pilots lost almost 1000m from the runway threshold. An approach should be stabilised by 1,000 feet above runway altitude. Otherwise, a go-around should be executed by the pilot. In the first instance the approach was stabilised for runway 28 but landing aborted probably due to weather in front, severe buffeting. They came back for the second attempt for runway 10. Sheer bad luck!

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It looks like a local sickular political party in malappuram district had a direct hand in getting the airport to kozhikode and even acted like it was their personal creation.

The original location of this airport was another city where flat land is available to build proper runways with associated safety areas.

the same sickular party insisted on haj flights from kozhikode, insisted on landing clearance for wide body aircrafts when all other official agencies fiercely cautioned against it because of safety issues.

the same party did not allow the expansion of this airport and opposed the acquisition of land for this purpose.

now, all of a sudden they are very very quiet.

this was an accident that was just looking for the time and weather to happen and the holes in the swiss cheese lined up perfectly on friday night.

too bad that the greedy politicos will, once again, get off scot free.
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There are four airports in India with tabletop runways. They are at Kozhikode, Mangalore, Shimla and Pakyong (Sikkim). The Lengpui airport in Mizoram which is with the state government also has a tabletop runway. There are various countermeasures available today to arrest runway excursions.

It was sheer bad luck and a combination of factors that was not favourable. It happens but very unfortunate.

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or Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) a bed of crushable cubes meant to collapse on impact to stop planes that may veer off course

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It is being reported by @TimesNow that the DGCA overruled its own 2015 order banning the use of wide-bodied aircrafts at the Kozhikode Airport under pressure from IUML and the Kerala CM.

I really hope this is not true, but if it is, there should be hell to pay.
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chetak wrote:
It is being reported by @TimesNow that the DGCA overruled its own 2015 order banning the use of wide-bodied aircrafts at the Kozhikode Airport under pressure from IUML and the Kerala CM.

I really hope this is not true, but if it is, there should be hell to pay.
B737 is narrow body jet and why should there be any problem with wide-bodied aircraft in table-tops if runway safety is improved with proper safety measures like engineered materials arresting system (EMAS).

This is India's newest table-top at Pakyong, Sikkim

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Unstable approach animation ILS Boeing 737 NG

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Speaking to an AEB examiner in 1985 who at some tenure was instructor at AF Academy Dundigal, he said "we want cadets that can learn and adapt reasonably quickly (w.r.t the decision to pass/fail trainee pilots). Other wise learning flying the plane is so easy that given enough time we can even teach monkeys to fly them.."

IMVVHO I find it ludicrous that a civil airport should not be able to operate with perfect safely with 9000 ft long runway (that is perfectly good for a difficult aircraft like Mig-21 or SU-7. Most IAF fighter bases have just 9000 ft runway). Please look at most European civil runways that are shorter than 9000 ft and their safety record. Unless Indian citizens want airport and airlines run by monkeys.
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Who makes the decision as to where the aircraft will land? Is the Captain authorized to divert to another airport if landing conditions are not ideal (i.e. daylight, no rain, no wind)?
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vera_k wrote:Who makes the decision as to where the aircraft will land? Is the Captain authorized to divert to another airport if landing conditions are not ideal (i.e. daylight, no rain, no wind)?
Pilot-in-command if the flight is airborne and in such emergency situations depending on the situational awareness.

Before departure when the flight is in planning stage and flight plans are being filed with the ANSP, the airline flight dispatcher together with the Captain agrees on a set of alternative landing airports in case of flight diversion for any reason, depending on loading, fuel availability, passenger emergency mid-air etc.
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the ideal thing would have been to divert and possibly land at kannur which is approximately 60-70 miles away.

wait it out there without disembarking passengers, refuel and return to kozhikode.

why risk a let down into a known dicey runway under such severe and wet night time conditions that also included a significant tail wind component

then again, there are subtle management pressures on the crew to not divert because of cost and inconvenience to the company especially in companies like AIX, where the pilots are on contract and have nada job security
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chetak wrote:the ideal thing would have been to divert and possibly land at kannur which is approximately 60-70 miles away.
Only 70 miles? WTH? I'm scratching my head. Absolutely no reason for this flight to not have been diverted one hour out with advanced weather tracking capabilities this days.
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darshan wrote:
chetak wrote:the ideal thing would have been to divert and possibly land at kannur which is approximately 60-70 miles away.
Only 70 miles? WTH? I'm scratching my head. Absolutely no reason for this flight to not have been diverted one hour out with advanced weather tracking capabilities this days.
yatra.com says

"The aerial distance from Kannur to Kozhikode is 82KM"

that's quite close by
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5seO_M ... e=youtu.be

Editorial With Sujit Nair: Was Kozhikode Crash Result of Aviation Ministry's Negligence?


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Still no word on how and when the decision to not divert the plane to another airport was made. One shouldn't have need to wait for flight black box for that. ATC should have already provided their side.
Kozhikode Air India Plane Crash: LDF, IUML Blame One Another For Failing To Get Land For Airport Runway Extension
https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/kozh ... -extension
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Some questions
a) Why was an EMAS (Engineering Material Arresting System) not provided. The Runway safety area beyond the runway end was inadequate - should have been a minimum of 1,000 feet and there is a non-standard 108 ft drop starting at 500 feet. See this vide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_bZVNIy_s. With the conditions that existed at the airport, the EMAS would have helped save all lifes.
b) The runway length was adequate. 737s land at Chicago MidWay airport that is barely 5,500 feet long under icy conditions. Wet conditions increase runway length requirement by 15%. There was still enough runway length for this. However, were the NAVAIDs working correctly? Did something make the pilots land long?
c) Did the plane experience some mechanical failure?
d) Was there water ponding on the runway surface that could have caused hydroplaning?
e) When a drop of 110 feet could be allowed, why was a barrier not built to stop the fall of an aircraft?
f) Why did the ATC make the plane circle? Visibility? If yes - then aircraft should have been diverted. Thunderstorms? Aircraft should have been diverted. Or did ATC know of some issues with ILS that would guide the pilot to land further from landing threshold than usual?

It seems very strange that the aircraft was made to circle and then allowed to land and it could not stop in time. If a parallel taxiway with a high speed exit had been provided, that may have helped. I would have though the the death of 158 people in Mangalore would have stopped the construction of "tabletop" airports. The comparisons with Nepal's airport are not justified. Nepal is constrained. This reeks of poor design and poor safety measures to mitigate those non-standard conditions.
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DGCA suspends two senior executives of AirAsia India over safety violations
Updated: Aug 11, 2020 10:28 IST

Aviation regulator DGCA has suspended two senior executives of AirAsia India for a period of three months over “safety violations”, said a senior official on Tuesday.

The suspension was carried out a week ago, the official said.

In June this year, one of the AirAsia India’s former pilots -- who runs a YouTube channel called Flying Beast -- alleged violations of safety norms by the low-cost airline.

“We had issued a show cause notice to two AirAsia India executives -- Head of Operations Manish Uppal and Head of Flight Safety Mukesh Nema -- in June only. It has been decided now to suspend them for a period of three months,” the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said.

AirAsia India did not respond to PTI’s request for a statement on this matter.

Captain Gaurav Taneja, a popular Youtuber, tweeted on June 14 that he has been suspended by AirAsia India “for standing up for safe operations of an aircraft and its passengers”. On June 15, he posted a detailed video on YouTube titled “Reasons behind suspension from my pilot job”.

Taneja alleged in the video that the airline has asked its pilots to do 98 per cent of landings in “Flap 3” mode, which allows it to save fuel. He said if a pilot does not do 98 per cent of landings in “Flap 3” mode, the airline considers it a violation of its standard operating procedure (SOP).


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Simulation of the recent tragedy.

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Adanis close to acquiring GVK’s 51% in Mumbai International Airport.
The tussle between Adani Group and GVK Group over control of Mumbai airport seems to be heading towards a resolution with the former proposing to acquire a majority stake in Mumbai International Airport (MIAL).

According to sources close to the development, Adani Group could acquire a controlling 51 per cent stake in the airport. Preliminary discussions have taken place between the two sides to end the dispute which may lead to GVK exiting the prestigious Mumbai airport venture, sources said.
Encouraging and welcome news as the Adanis will be no doubt set a aggressive timeline to construct the Navi Mumbai Airport and also likely enhance capacity in the first phase itself which the financially down in the dumps GVK group would not have been able to.
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Tata Group likely to submit bid for Air India this month

Now, as per a report published in a financial daily, the Tata Group has already started due diligence and could submit it close to the official deadline at the end of this month.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/busine ... 83672.html

Looks like it is a done deal? I am wondering how the Tata Group will manage Air India post acquisition? Will they merge Vistara and Air Asia with Air India and AI Express? Looks like some consolidation is required....any comments?
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sumsumne wrote:Tata Group likely to submit bid for Air India this month

Now, as per a report published in a financial daily, the Tata Group has already started due diligence and could submit it close to the official deadline at the end of this month.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/busine ... 83672.html

Looks like it is a done deal? I am wondering how the Tata Group will manage Air India post acquisition? Will they merge Vistara and Air Asia with Air India and AI Express? Looks like some consolidation is required....any comments?
TATA won't merge AI with Vistara, Singapore Airlines is no longer interested in working with them on AI unlike the previous attempt at regaining AI that was scuttled by politics. It will be good for AI to go back home to TATA.
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Won't the baboos complain about "Single-bidder situation" and scuttle the deal if there are no other bids besides that of Tata?

Tata will probably sell its stake in either Vistara and/or Air Asia if this goes through. Running three airlines in India is insanity, especially in the current tough times.
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nachiket wrote:Won't the baboos complain about "Single-bidder situation" and scuttle the deal if there are no other bids besides that of Tata?

Tata will probably sell its stake in either Vistara and/or Air Asia if this goes through. Running three airlines in India is insanity, especially in the current tough times.
Most likely they'll sell Air Asia stake -hopefully the baboons will be kept away from this one
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The continuing trials (of perseverance) of Cpt. Amol Yadav, to build his transport plane...

Sobering read...

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Can you help this Indian make aviation history?
'This project started with my mom mortgaging her mangalsutra.' 'I have been successfully keeping my dream alive by mortgaging my brother's house.'

If 15 million Indians decide to contribute just one rupee each, (yes you tread it right; just one rupee), Captain Amol Shivaji Yadav, who has built an indigenous six-seater airplane can finish the second mandatory test flight at 2,000 feet after which, in about six months, his company Thrust Aircraft Company can manufacture 100 airplanes in about an year.

If that wouldn't make aviation history in India by an Indian, what will?

"My dream of making airplanes in India, by an Indian, is at stake for me," says the 44-year-old ex-jet Airways pilot, who has built the TAC003 on the terrace of his house in Kandivali, north west Mumbai.

After spending more than 19 years to just get the permission to fly and about Rs 6 crore (Rs 60 million) of his and his family's hard-earned money, Captain Yadav is struggling to get another Rs 15 million to complete the 2,000 feet test flight by maneuvering the aircraft at that altitude as per Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) norms. "I just need about one-and-a-half crore rupees; if I have it, I will just go ahead and finish it off tomorrow," Captain Yadav tells Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com when asked how prepared he is for this second test and the hurdle he needs to cross to do it.
How are you managing the funds? Is that a big challenge?

I have not been getting any funds. I have received nothing. I have received no help from nobody. As simple and straightforward as that!

How much have you spent on your first test flight?
We have spent about Rs 6 crore till today, together. It's all my money, my family, my friends.

No help from either the state government or the Union government?
Nobody has helped yet, except three gentlemen: one Mr Dinesh, Mr Kamlakar and Mr Lalit Kale.

If you want to contribute towards helping an Indian create aviation history, you can contact Captain Amol Shivaji Yadav at 9320032733.
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Adani Group asked to take over operations of Ahmedabad airport by November 12
https://www.deshgujarat.com/2020/10/09/ ... vember-12/
New Delhi: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has asked Adani Group to take over and start operating the Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru airports by November 12, 2020 according to a report. The Adani Group – M/s Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) had cited the force majeure in March, 2020 arising from Covid 19 pandemic to inform the Airports Authority of India (AAI) that it may have to delay taking over the three (Lucknow, Manglore, and Ahmedabad) of the six airports it had won in February 2019 till 15th February, 2021.
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The Airport Authority of India (AAI) expect upfront payment of Rs 1,000 crore followed by another Rs 1,300 crore from them for the six airports. The Adani Group quoted the highest per-passenger fee and bagged the 50 year concession for operating all the 6 currently AAI operated airports – Lucknow, Jaipur, Guwhati, Ahmedabad, Trivandrum, and Mangalore – which were put up for auction.
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So it seems like the much touted C929 is facing turbulence due to the usual mischievous and nastiness expected by the Chinese.

China-Russia big jet project faces turbulence
Serious conflicts are stalling Beijing and Moscow’s hook-up to design and develop a wide-body passenger jet to wrest business from Boeing and Airbus.

The pair’s CR929 project to launch a dual-aisle airliner is said to have come to a halt. Widespread dissension among Chinese and Russian officials and technicians may even threaten to unravel the venture, once touted by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin as an example of what both countries could collaborate to achieve.

China and Russia are closing ranks against the West’s new tech iron curtain and isolation, especially when Washington is waging a tech war against China on multiple fronts.

The two powers are teaming up for programs from military to manufacturing. Beijing aims to draw on Moscow’s technical expertise while ailing Russian design bureaus and defense contractors are tapping new income streams while Beijing is on a spree importing technologies.

Still, the long-range passenger jet project is being delayed as Chinese and Russian participants argue about the specifications.

Citing a source within Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), the Chinese state-owned plane-maker involved in the CR929 project, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao Daily revealed a duel over the selection of key suppliers, a process that may be delayed for a year after experts from both countries failed to reach a consensus.

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp confirmed that the expected delivery of the jet that can fly up to 440 passengers in one class will be pushed back by three to four years to 2029. That means the CR929’s first commercial flight to carry fare-paying passengers has become a forlorn hope.

It has been more than four years since both countries agreed to pool their talents and teased the market with a passenger jet to poach orders off Boeing’s bestselling 787 and Airbus’ 330 and 340.

A joint venture between Comac and UAC was established at Shanghai’s Pudong airport in 2017, near Comac’s hangar where China’s indigenous narrow-body airliner C919 was taking shape.

Optimism was still in the air at Pudong last year, when UAC’s project coordinator and lead engineer was quoted by Xinhua as saying that the first delivery of CR929 could be as early as 2025. At the time, the amity between Beijing and Russia was at an all-time high with a flurry of reciprocal visits by Xi and Putin.

Yet now the fate of the CR929 appears to be up in the air, following reports citing Denis Manturov, Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade, who revealed the discord between Moscow and Beijing over the transfer of technology and market access.

The minister, a heavyweight Putin protege, did not mince words and went so far as to allege that the Chinese were bent on snooping on Russian experts and getting hold of core, proprietary technology and solutions while refusing to open up their domestic market.

Before long there were counteraccusations from some Comac employees who took to the social media and forums popular among technicians to say Russia was only interested in selling parts to China without the goodwill to swap and share vital technology.

Manturov, nonetheless, has still sought to dismiss rumors about a total falling-out and assured that Russia would not pull out of the program and both sides would seek common ground.

Another question is UAC’s insistence to base the CR929’s fuselage design on the outmoded Russian jet Ilyushin IL-86, whose production ended in the 1990s. Comac has refused to adopt the “medieval” Soviet design.

It is also said that Russia also sought to replicate its cooperation model with India to only outsource the assembly of CR929 to Comac. Russia only transferred drawings of Su-35 stealth fighters to India for localized assembly but not its intellectual property about the fifth-generation warplane. {Some basic research by the author about which Sukhoi fighters being used by India would have helped} In response, Comac categorically rejected the Russian plan which could reduce its role to merely an original equipment manufacturer.

An aeronautics professor with the Beihang University in Beijing told Asia Times that both countries would still realize the common need to share the hefty research and development outlay – the CR929 program is projected to cost US$13-20 billion – as well as to jointly promote the plane beyond their home markets.

“For long-range planes like CR929 to be commercially successful, they must find buyers across the globe as its range extends beyond borders and even continents,” the academic said.

“China and Russia working as one can feed into each other’s needs and work around any barriers and red tape in airworthiness certification as the United States and Europe may want to sabotage the process.

“China and Russia may institute their regulatory regime and together woo buyers from the third world, like those carriers from Africa, South Africa and Eastern Europe.

“Russia is still several notches above China in aeronautics and aerospace industries but China’s leverage is its deep pocket, market size and fat orders.”

The professor also said China could still count on its own ingenuity to develop the CR929, even though initially the plane would need engines from the West, like those from Rolls-Royce, to get airborne.

The fleet of Chinese carriers will include 2,000 new wide-body jets in the next 20 years as the world’s most populous nation is set to surpass the US as the world’s largest civil aviation market, according to estimates by China’s Civil Aviation Administration, though the forecast does not factor in the impact from Covid-19.

With CR929, Beijing wants domestic players like Comac to defend their home turf against offerings from Boeing and Airbus.

In the meantime, Chinese state media say Comac has been making headway towards the launch of an indigenous high-thrust turbofan engine that can be potentially fitted on the CR929.
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https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1 ... 75776?s=20 ---> HAL initiates process of build-up of upgraded Civil Mk III Wheel Helicopter with integration of 7 major modules, ie State-Of-The-Art Glass Cockpit, Automatic Flight Control System, Integrated Dynamic System, Crashworthy Structure etc., in coordination with DGCA. Apologies for poor photograph quality.

https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1 ... 40162?s=20 ---> After completion of structural assembly/equipping, maiden ground run of the ALH Mk III Civil was carried out on 16 Nov 2020 in the presence of S Anbuvelan, CEO (HC), V Sivasubramanian, GM (H), Gp Capt Hari Nair (Retd), CTP (RW) & other officers from RWR&DC & Helicopter Division.

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Indonesia: Boeing 737-500 of Sriwijaya Air loses contact minutes after taking off from Jakarta
https://www.opindia.com/2021/01/indones ... aking-off/
A Sriwijaya Air aircraft that took off from Jakarta in Indonesia has gone missing shortly after its take off. Flight tracking websites Flightradar24 reported that that Boeing 737-500 plane lost more than 10,000 altitude in less than minute before disappearing from radar.
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I hope GoI uses the opportunity provided by Covid to reduce the market access by the Middle East carriers to the Indian civilian market. For too long these airlines have taken advantage of India.
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rajkumar wrote:I hope GoI uses the opportunity provided by Covid to reduce the market access by the Middle East carriers to the Indian civilian market. For too long these airlines have taken advantage of India.
"Reduce" in what way?.. Allow them less flights? Less slots?

And how exactly have they taken advantage of India?... They allowed Indian passengers a huge amount of flexibility and to connect to Europe and North America with lower prices and the public obviously has responded very positively and uses them in huge numbers

The direct Air India flights are usually expensive, quickly booked and have a substandard premium class while Indian domestic airlines are only just starting to venture into widebody and long range flights.

Indigo and Co will capture more of the India-Gulf share in the future but the fact remains that for India-US and India-Europe the best value for money product are still the Middle Eastern carriers.
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https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1 ... 15299?s=20 ---> WONDERFUL!! India gets first Inflatable Hangar.

The 1st of its kind in India was commissioned at GMR Aero Technik's MRO facility at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on 12 Feb. The Hangar H-45 is suitable to store two narrow body aircraft such as one A320 NEO & one B737-900.

https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1 ... 28960?s=20 ---> The hangar has been manufactured by Buildair Inflatable Structural Solution of Spain. Buildair hangars come in five sizes - H-20 measuring 20 meters, H-35 measuring 35 meters, H-45 measuring 45 meters, H-54 measuring 54 meters and the largest H-75 measuring 75 meters.

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https://swarajyamag.com/insta/maharasht ... y-business

an affordable twin-engined plane or a helicopter under 10 crores - indian private aviation will take off IMO...

HAL should sell a civilian version of LUH...

WOW helicopers are super cheap already -- https://internationalaviationhq.com/202 ... licopters/ !! there are so many <$1million helicopters!!
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Two Indian, Two Foreign Companies To Establish Aircraft Leasing Arm At GIFT City In Gujarat
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/two-india ... in-gujarat
Domestic companies like JetSetGo Aviation Services Pvt Ltd and aviation consultancy and asset management firm Vman Aero will join the foreign companies in this initiative. Union Budget 2021 promotes this vision by providing incentives and tax holidays on capital gains for aircraft leasing firms operating in the GIFT City.

Kharola said, “Aircraft financing is also the most profitable segment of the aviation value chain. Currently, foreign financiers and lessors are the biggest beneficiaries of India’s growing aviation strength.” He also claimed that India has created a well-organized ecosystem for leasing aircrafts as compared to those of Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, China etc.
Several advantages such as tax holidays spanning across 10 years, waiver of basic custom duty, stamp duty, waiver of capital gain taxes on aircraft disposal during the tax holiday period and even holding back tax on interest payments on royalty for non-residents will be provided to aircraft lessors at the IFSC.
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8th civil airport to be inaugurated tomorrow March 8th by CM UP Yogi Adityananath at Bareilly. Alliance Air will operate flights and soon after Indigo will start flight operations from Bareilly.

https://twitter.com/811GK/status/136813 ... 59/photo/4

Bareilly is where the Jat Regiment regimental Center is located and also has an Air force station, previously home to the Trisonics who flew Mig 25s. Most likely this airport is a civilian enclave in an IAF station as at Pune Lohegaon, Bamrauli Prayagraj and even Chakeri Kanpur.

Chakeri Kanpur is getting a new terminal building and a new runway which I suppose will be different from the adjoining HAL runway. Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Agra, Kanpur, Prayagraj and Hindon are the other civil airports in UP. Flights from Hindon go towards Belagavi etc.
Kanpur airport is named GSVM airport after Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi a Hindi poet. Kanpur medical college a 60+ year old establishment is also named GSVM medical kallege.
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Billionaire French politician Olivier Dassault, of Rafale fame, dies in helicopter crash: Report


March 8, 2021

French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault died in a helicopter crash on Sunday in northern France's Normandy region, news agency reported probe sources as saying.

Olivier Dassault was the grandson of Marcel Dassault, the founder of the French aircraft manufacturing giant Dassault Aviation.

A subsidiary of the Dassault Group, Dassault Aviation is a French aerospace company that manufactures business and military jets, including the Rafale fighter jet.

Oliver Dassault was the president of strategy and development of the family-controlled conglomerate Dassault Group.
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Does HANSA-NG feature major modifications to overall structures/shape of the plane? Was not able find any specs...is there any significant reduction in Empty Wt etc? I know it features an updated engine, which might result in better endurance & overall performance and an upgraded cockpit as well. Read DGCA is not considering new TC but will issue a STC kind based on existing one. So, I am suspecting there ain't massive changes in overall structures & shape but upgraded stuff like avionics.
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