{"id":640041,"date":"2024-03-30T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=640041"},"modified":"2024-03-30T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:57:15","slug":"tejas-mark-1a-fighter-aircraft-completes-first-flight-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tejas-mark-1a-fighter-aircraft-completes-first-flight-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Tejas Mark-1A fighter aircraft completes first flight in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Tejas Mark-1A fighter aircraft took to the skies from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Bengaluru on Thursday. The successful sortie, which flew for 18 minutes, was piloted by HAL\u2019s chief test pilot, Group Captain KK Venugopal (Retd). \u201cHAL achieved this significant production milestone with concurrent design and development\u2026 subsequent to the contract signature in February 2021\u201d, said CB Ananthakrishnan, chairman and managing director, HAL. <\/p>\n<p>HAL stated on Thursday: \u201cThe country can look forward to early induction of the Tejas Mark-1A by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and more numbers through the three lines of production established at HAL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Tejas Mark-1A fighter aircraft took to the skies from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Bengaluru on Thursday. The successful sortie, which flew for 18 minutes, was piloted by HAL\u2019s chief test pilot, Group Captain KK Venugopal (Retd). \u201cHAL achieved this significant production milestone with concurrent design and development\u2026 subsequent to the contract signature in February 2021\u201d, said CB Ananthakrishnan, chairman and managing director, HAL. HAL stated on Thursday: \u201cThe country can look forward to early induction of the Tejas Mark-1A by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and more numbers through the three lines of production established [&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-640041","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\/640041","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=640041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}