{"id":529987,"date":"2022-10-15T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529987"},"modified":"2022-10-15T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T05:23:42","slug":"bengaluru-19-seater-aircraft-saras-mk-ii-at-critical-design-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-19-seater-aircraft-saras-mk-ii-at-critical-design-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: 19-seater aircraft SARAS Mk II at critical design stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), which has undertaken the design, development and certification of the SARAS Mk II, said Friday that the 19-seater aircraft was at the critical design stage.<\/p>\n<p>An open-air engine test bed, an aircraft environmental systems ground test and a high-fidelity, real-time flight simulator were<br \/>\nrecently commissioned to test the various subsystems of the aircraft, the laboratory added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Abhay A Pashilkar, CSIR-NAL director, said, \u201cThe aircraft will be powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney PT6A-67A turboprop engines with composite propellers in the tractor configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), which has undertaken the design, development and certification of the SARAS Mk II, said Friday that the 19-seater aircraft was at the critical design stage. An open-air engine test bed, an aircraft environmental systems ground test and a high-fidelity, real-time flight simulator were recently commissioned to test the various subsystems of the aircraft, the laboratory added. Dr Abhay A Pashilkar, CSIR-NAL director, said, \u201cThe aircraft will be powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney PT6A-67A turboprop engines with composite propellers in the tractor configuration.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529987","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=529987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}