CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore (CSIR-NAL) is participating in Wings India 2022 and showcasing its indigenous initiatives of civil aircrafts for flying training & commuter air connectivity.
HANSA–NG Aircraft designed and developed by CSIR-NAL is major attraction in Wings 2022. HANSA-NG was piloted by Wg. Cdr. Dilip Reddy, an Experimental Test Pilot of IAF. He has demonstrated its flying capabilities like climb, descend, maneuvering, low level stability and short take off /landing, exciting the viewers.
HANSA-NG is one of the most advanced two seat flying trainer aircraft powered by Rotax Digital Control Engine with unique features like Just-In-Time Prepreg (JIPREG) Composite lightweight Airframe, Glass Cockpit, Bubble Canopy with wide panoramic view, electrically operated flaps, etc.
HANSA NG is capable offlying upto an altitude of 10000ft with max speed of 200 kmph with more than 5 hrs endurance. HANSA –NG completed more than 55 hours of flying and will be type certified by DGCA shortly. NAL has already received more than 80 nos. of LoIs (Letter of Intents) from various flying clubs across the country and delivery is scheduled from July 2022.
The spectacular formation flying of multi-copter drones developed by NAL demonstrating live societal applications has caught attention of many. The unique features of multi-copter drone are fully autonomous BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of sight) operation capability with maxpayload capability of 20kg with endurance of about 30 mins. MoCA has given the conditional clearance and more than 60hrs offlying is completed.
Jitendra Jadhav Director CSIR-NAL stated that the design is carried out with extensiveuse of digital tools like 3D platforms, virtual reality, advanced CATIA, Digital Mock Up (DMU) and PLM (Project Life Cycle Management) techniques to reduce efforts in design and manufacturing. He further stated that, the flight test efforts are reduced by realizing high fidelity simulator’s & test facilities where most test points can be demonstrated on the ground.
NAL demonstrated functional sub scale model of High Altitude Platforms (HAP) as afuturistic path breaking technology. HAP is a solar-powered UAV capable of day & night operation at a height of 20 km for more than 90 days.
