Aerospace Diary

  Information Shared New Delhi-, ISHRAE in collaboration with GMR group organized a two day conference“ACRECONF India 2019”on March 29&30, ‘2019 at Indian Aviation Academy. ISHRAE in public spaces has remarkable importance.  Indoor air quality is a crucial element for passengers and staff protection, as well as a key aspect of airport passenger experience.Busy environment area like airport terminals, are currently regarded as possible hotspots .   This two days conference organised by the Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers along with ASHRAE- India Chapter in association with, India’s largest Private Airport Company was attended by experts from Aviation and environment sector who brainstormed on how to improve Indoor Air Quality inside Airports.   Ms. Radha Goyal, Deputy Director IPCA, Secretary Society of Indoor environment stated that, “The main emphasis should be put on reducing the infiltration inside the...

by  Neelam Mathews  -  March 19, 2019, 8:11 AM With airline seating capacity throughout India down about 20 percent from its peak, the country appears set to lose its standing as the world’s lowest-airfare market. About 100 airliners now sit grounded or out of service, suggesting the aviation sector will almost certainly not see the near 19 percent growth many forecasters projected for this year.   The March 10 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash near Addis Ababa prompted Indian authorities to ground some 13 Max jets flown by SpiceJet and five by cash-strained Jet Airways, an airline that already had grounded 56 airplanes due to financial troubles. Others include GoAir, nine of whose Airbus A320neos await engine spares; Air India, which has grounded 17 airplanes for similar reasons; and IndiGo, which has taken out of service 10 airplanes and cut some 100 flights a day due to a pilot shortage.  “Capacity reduction is likely to see annual gro...

A model of the LCA Mk1A was also on show at Aero India. This version introduces a refueling probe. (Photo: Neelam Mathews) Government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) will deliver 16 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) in the final operational clearance (FOC) configuration to the Indian Air Force (IAF) by the end of this year, said HAL chairman R. Madhavan. He added that 16 LCAs have been delivered in the Initial Operation Clearance (IOC) configuration already. An additional eight are being produced as trainers. The LCA received its FOC last month during the Aero India show in Bangalore, for induction into the Indian Air Force as a fully weaponized fighter. Following the major Vayu Shakti Air Force exercise in February, the Chief of the IAF, Air Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, reported, “It is a fighter jet and behaved like a fighter. It did well both in air-to-air combat, as well as air-to-ground combat.”   HAL has been waiting for the past six months to receive an order ...

Neelam Mathews, Delhi March 5, 2019 Melbourne Airport in Australia has begun work on its development plans for the next three years. “Most of the Request for Proposals for infrastructure development for the airport ...more in JAR

7th March 2019 - 01:54 GMT   |   by  Neelam Mathews  in Delhi Bangalore-based Maini Precision Products and  Safran Helicopter Engines  signed an MoU ‘to develop a long-term industrial strategic relationship’ for the potential manufacture of Safran engine parts for the global market. The MoU was signed........more in Shephard Media

PROVISION OF NEW HANGAR AT AF STATION CARNICOBAR  Last date March 21, 2019 CONSTRUCTION OF EMERGENCY LANDING FACILITY FROM KM 246.200 TO KM 249.700 (DESIGN LENGTH 3.5 KM) ON SRINAGAR-BANIHAL SECTION OF NH 1A (NEW NH-44) IN THE STATE OF JAMMU AND  Kashmir  - April 1, 2019 EXTENSION OF RUNWAY 20 BEGINNING AND STRENGTHENING OF APRON, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TAXI-TRACK AND STRENGTHENING OF RUNWAY AND LINK TAXIWAY (20 END) INCLUDING PARALLEL  ...March 22, 2019 CONSTRUCTION OF PEB HANGAR WITH LEANS AND INFRASTRUCURE INCLUDING PROVISION OF NEW DISPERSAL WITH TWO TAXI TRACK AT INS BAAZ CAMPBELL BAY March 23, 2019   EXTENSION OF RUNWAY 20 BEGINNING AND STRENGTHENING OF APRON, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TAXI-TRACK AND STRENGTHENING OF RUNWAY AND LINK TAXIWAY (20 END) INCLUDING PARALLEL TAXIWAY AND ISOLATION BAY AND VEHICULAR LANE AT LGBI AIRPORT, GUWAHATI   CONSTRUCTION OF ELEVATED CORRIDOR FLY OVER FROM DAMOH NAKA TO RANITAL MADAN MAHAL IN CITY JABALPUR I/C SHIFTING OF H....

The  Women’s Engineering Society  (WES) has announced the fourth iteration of the Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) campaign in 2019. Building on the success of the 2016, 2017 and 2018 campaigns, WES is looking to increase the reach, profile and engagement to encourage young women into engineering. WES is delighted to be launching the theme for the 2019 Top 50 Women in Engineering in Apprenticeships Week, as this year’s Top 50 Women in Engineering will be  Current or Former Apprentices . Once again, the competition will follow a public nominations process from which the top 50 will be selected. While women make up around 14% of engineers in the UK, just over 7% of engineering apprentices are female. By selecting the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Current or Former Apprentices  as its theme for 2019, WES aims to highlight the terrific opportunities that engineering apprenticeships offer women. Engineering Apprenticeships provide an alternative route to a care...

Friday, 08 March 2019        An Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison aircraft airborne from Air force Station Nal for a routine sortie, crashed near Bikaner, Rajasthan on 08 Mar 19 at around 1430 hrs.  The pilot ejected safely.  Initial inputs indicate the likely cause of accident as bird hit after take off. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to investigate the cause  of accident.

Neelam Mathews March 7, 2019 Embroiled in a quagmire of losses resulting in the grounding of 42 of its 114-aircraft fleet and the cancelation of some 200 flights a day, India’s Jet Airways faces a bleak future should stakeholders not accept a resolution plan to convert mounting debt into equity. The airline owes more than $1.25 billion, $300 million of which came from government-owned State Bank of India (SBI). The approval of the bank-led provisional resolution plan “is an important step” toward saving the country’s oldest private carrier, Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal indicated in a statement late last month. Jet Airways vendors have called a meeting on March 11 with the carrier and representatives from minority shareholder Etihad Airways to ascertain and decide the way forward. “It is hard to say if there will be closure,” an airline official told  AIN . “The situation is very critical and any further delay will create challenges for Jet,” said CAPA Centre for Avia...

by  Neelam Mathews Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation-owned Beriev has begun negotiating the sale of Be-200 amphibians with Indian regional airlines. The development follows the inclusion of seaplanes under the recently announced third phase of India’s Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), which allows seaplanes to serve 18 routes. The seaplane operations would add more than 100,000 seats. The RCS provides initiatives for aircraft operators to connect underserved and remote airports. Initially designed for fire extinguishing, the Be-200 flies to a range of 1,780 nm and can land on the ground, ice-covered airfields, and on water. Beriev has now begun a program to re-engine the amphibian with PowerJet SaM146 turbofans built by a joint venture between Russia’s NPO Saturn and France’s Snecma. The new engine will increase its operational ceiling to 33,000 feet and improve fuel efficiency by 17 percent compared with its present Ukrainian D-436TPs. “This is a uniq...

by  Neelam Mathews  -  February 22, 2019, 9:27 AM The WanderB UAS is intended for covert operations and can operate within a 50-km range. (photo: Cyient Solutions and Systems) Hyderabad-based Cyient Solutions and Systems (CSS), a 51-49 percent joint venture company between engineering, manufacturing, geospatial, digital, networks company Cyient and Israel’s Blue Bird, launched at Aero India in Bangalore an electric mini WanderB vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS). The UAS covers a longer distance than SpyLite, already delivered to the army in November. The VTOL has an extra battery to ensure extended distance operations for low-intensity conflicts addressed by the paramilitary, Sanjay Sharma, vice president and business head of CSS, told  AIN . WanderB is specially optimized for covert, “over-the-hill” operations, supporting extensive day and night intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (...

​ Neelam Mathews March 1, 2019  A long-term requirement for rotary unmanned aerial vehicles for the Indian military is now being addressed by government-owned defence manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). The new ... more in Shephardmedia....    

28-Feb-2019 Harris Communications Systems  India  has completed renovation of the New Delhi facility that is due to house the network operations control centre for Indian nationwide aviation communications infrastructure. Indian civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurated the new facility via video link on 27 February. The 12,000 ft   2  Network Operations Control Centre......more in Jar

Neelam Mathews , Delhi Feb 28, 2019 French design and project management consultancy Egis is targeting the Indian air traffic management and airport markets, according to chairman and......JAR