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Thursday, June 03, 2010

LSP 4 of LCA 'Tejus' takes to sky

Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)The Limited Series production (LSP) number four of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) 'Tejas', with full equipment standards of Initial Operational Clearance, took to the skies on its first flight here today.

The DRDO developed indigenous fighter aircraft is manufactured by state-run aviation giant HAL. It took off in the morning and flew for 40 minutes.

In the sortie, the Test Pilot, Gp Capt Suneet Krishna, flew the aircraft to an attitude of 11 kms and went supersonic, touching 1.1 Mach speed with Test Director, Gp Capt D Chakravorty, guiding him from the telemetry facility of National Flight Test Centre, a DRDO press release said.

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