NAL’s Hansa-NG trainer aircraft completes sea-level trials
India’s first indigenous flying trainer aircraft Hansa-NG, designed and developed by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) here, successfully completed the sea-level trials at Puducherry from February 19 to March 5.
The aircraft was flown to Puducherry covering a distance of 140 nautical miles in one-and-half hours at a cruising speed of 155 km/hr on February 19.
The objective of these trials was to evaluate handling qualities, climb/cruise performance, balked landing, structural performance, including positive and negative G, power plant and other systems performance at the sea level.
NAL sources said all the objectives of the sea-level trials were met and the aircraft was ferried back to Bengaluru on Saturday after completing 18 hours of flying at Puducherry. The aircraft was piloted by Wg Cdr K V Prakash and Wg Cdr Dilip Reddy of ASTE.
