{"id":300962,"date":"2019-11-15T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T04:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300962"},"modified":"2019-11-15T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T04:47:52","slug":"bhadauria-backs-indigenisation-is-first-iaf-chief-to-fly-an-hal-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bhadauria-backs-indigenisation-is-first-iaf-chief-to-fly-an-hal-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhadauria backs indigenisation, is first IAF chief to fly an HAL prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signalling a new, positive attitude in the Indian Air Force (IAF) towards indigenous aircraft, its recently appointed chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, test-flew the prototype Hindustan Turbo Trainer \u2013 40 (HTT-40) at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in Bengaluru on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Bhadauria became the first serving IAF chief to fly an HAL-developed aircraft at the prototype stage. Bhadauria, himself an accomplished test pilot who has test-flown the Tejas fighter, was taken through the gruelling \u201csix-spin routine\u201d in which the HTT-40 prototype was allowed to spin six times before the pilot recovered it into level flight. <\/p>\n<p>For a prototype trainer aircraft, the \u201csix-spin\u201d test is considered the most conclusive landmark that signals the aircraft is ready to go into operational service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signalling a new, positive attitude in the Indian Air Force (IAF) towards indigenous aircraft, its recently appointed chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, test-flew the prototype Hindustan Turbo Trainer \u2013 40 (HTT-40) at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in Bengaluru on Thursday. Bhadauria became the first serving IAF chief to fly an HAL-developed aircraft at the prototype stage. Bhadauria, himself an accomplished test pilot who has test-flown the Tejas fighter, was taken through the gruelling \u201csix-spin routine\u201d in which the HTT-40 prototype was allowed to spin six times before the pilot recovered it into level flight. For a prototype trainer aircraft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}