India's Naval Light Combat Aircraft [LCA-Navy] - unique features & flight testing, Capt. Maolankar

Naval Light Combat Aircraft [N-LCA] - maiden flight [Photographs]
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Chief Test pilot of India's National Flight Test Centre, Naval Captain Jaideep Avinash Maolankar, spoke at the seminar organised during the biennial Aero India Air Show held in the Indian city of Bengaluru [Bangalore] in the month of February in 2011.

He spoke about the Naval version of the Light Combat Aircraft, especially, the trainer version that is currently under development. He stressed upon some of the features that are unique to the Naval version, like addition of the LEVECON surface to enable low speed handling of the aircraft, strengthened undercarriage to sustain the stresses imparted during carrier landing, modified intake to permit air flow at low speeds. Some unique features have already been implemented, some would be put in place in the next iterative prototype, while some that have been implements, would need to undergo a review & re-design.

He also talked in depth about the flight test plans scheduled for the Naval version of the LCA, to monitor & evaluate flight parameter unique to Naval aircrafts. He touched upon the Shore Based Test Facility [SBTF] that is being constructed in Goa & the associated telemetry monitoring systems being put in place

A must watch lecture.

Aero India

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Light Combat Aircraft [LCA]

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Tejas Flight Tests: lessons learnt so far
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Aeronautical Development Agency

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