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A e r o m a g 6 A e r o m a g 7 India poised India’s regulatory and oversight systems. there would be an acute need to fine-tune of the nation. Today India is considered to be one our system of competition management, Officials said Indian aviation sector is of the safest countries in terms of civil taxation laws and investment strategies, major economic driver for prosperity, aviation. Recently, the Federal Aviation while remaining socially responsible development and employment and its to become world’s third Administration (FAA) of America even towards the aspirations of common airports today have become the symbol cited India as a role model in the Asia- Indians. The increase in civil aviation of India’s growth story. Pacific region. activity is bound to impact the This sector with the growth of 18 per cent In order to retain this position and to environment too. It is necessary that in domestic market is poised to emerge largest civil aviation market assure all travelers the guarantee of safety, India should nationally gear up to face as the third largest aviation market in it would be necessary to redefine the this challenge and move towards better the world by the end of this decade. ndia is currently celebrating Exponential expansion would have about 1000 more planes and parameters of regulation. Government technologies and mitigation strategies Huge potential in this sector is yet to be the completion of 100 years of The last hundred years have seen Indian 500 more helicopters. is already looking into this matter and to minimize the effect of aviation on tapped and this is possible only with the Icommercial civil aviation in this civil aviation expand exponentially. From The acquisition of these modern aircraft considering restructuring of the DGCA cooperation and coordination among the country. A hundred years ago, a plane the days of the first flight when aircrafts and the investment in airports is expected into a more comprehensive system, which partners; Centre, States and private sector. flew from Allahabad to Naini, carrying landed on plain grounds without any to generate business opportunities works well above international standards. Issues of safety, security, infrastructure 6500 mails. This marked not only the navigational aids, India has traveled a worth about 150 billion dollars that will One of the biggest challenges before development and connectivity are most birth of commercial civil aviation in long distance to modern and world-class revolutionize the sector. Civil Aviation is India is to lend renewed vibrancy to important in the aviation sector. There India but also the first airmail service in airports of Hyderabad, Cochin, Bangalore clearly the sunrise sector of the Indian public sector undertakings like Air India should be zero tolerance policy as far as the world. and of course T-3. economy that is likely to change the way and Airports Authority of India. These safety is concerned. India took to wings only seven years Today the handling capacity of India’s Indians move, think and live. two organizations have rendered historic Security is indivisible and cannot be after the historic flight of the Wright airports has reached to 235 million people, The last hundred years have posed service to the nation and their continued segregated between States and Centre. brothers. It is believed that the first which is sufficient to fulfill its needs for innumerable challenges in the civil vibrancy is critical for optimal growth of There is a need to harmonize the processes planes came to India and perhaps to the next few years. Airports are being aviation sector which India successfully the sector. The Government is committed and procedures at all the Airports and to Asia in 1910 though the first commercial improved not only in the major Metros but overcame. The new century that lies to support these organizations to ensure ensure that the State police staff is well civil aviation flight took off only on the also 35 non-Metros, in a phased manner. ahead of it, is also bound to throw up new their healthy future. Civil aviation is a trained and proficient in work as the CISF. 18th February 1911. During the last two decades from a challenges. It is necessary for India, as a major employment creator and according Since then India and Indians have fleet of only about 100, the scheduled nation, to foresee those challenges and to to available studies it is expected that Government’s role never looked back. Through the operators today have 435 aircraft prepare itself to meet them effectively. this sector will create new employment environment. A socially harmonized Government’s role in connectivity is eventful decades, Indian civil aviation connecting the nation and the world. This opportunities for nearly 26 lakh Indians by growth of aviation alone will ensure its limited to formulate socially equitable has flown from strength to strength growth is going to be further accelerated One of the safest countries 2025. sustainability. policies and ensure its implementation. and is today one of the fastest growing in the years to come and the government The increase in the number of aircraft Catering to this human resource need is While India is celebrating its continuous The Civil Aviation ministry is considering aviation market in the world. expects that in another decade or so India is bound to put a heavy pressure on in itself a challenge. India needs to strive growth it is also necessary to be eternally restructuring the DGCA into a Civil Contributing to this growth has been the to develop and nurture a strong world cautious of the threats to its security from Aviation Authority (CAA). undoubting spirit of India’s entrepreneurs, class training infrastructure in the country various quarters. It has to remember the In order to prevent repetitive accidents, pilots, engineers, crew-members and to ensure continuous production of skilled tragedies of Kanishka and IC 814 to remain an Independent Civil Aviation Accident scientists. and professional manpower to fulfill the constantly vigilant of the dangers that lurk Investigation Committee has been set Civil aviation is a major driver of the requirements of this sector. round the corner. up within oversight of Ministry of Civil economy. The International Civil Aviation Aviation to coordinate and oversee the Organisation estimates that every 100 Sensitive to economic environment Security is top priority investigation into accidents and also dollars spent on air transport produce Civil Aviation industry is extremely Maintaining security is the priority that effective follow up of compliance of benefits worth 325 dollars for the sensitive to the economic environment cannot be overlooked even for a single recommendations. economy. Hundred additional jobs in air in which it operates. Issues of taxation, moment. It might have some effect on Steps are under way to set up a transport result in 610 new jobs in the investment policies and competition are passenger facilitation but it is imperative full-fledged Independent Accident economy. vital to its survival. As the sector grows, in the larger interest of travelers as well as Investigation Board.

A e r o m a g 8 A e r o m a g 9 Commanding of a SU-30 base, Air-I at New Delhi based Western Air Command Air Marshal N A K Browne (WAC) and Assistant Chief of the Air Staff SCHUNK’s (Intelligence) at Air Headquarters. He was also responsible for establishing is Chief of Air Staff the Indian Defence Wing in Tel Aviv, Israel ir Marshal N A K Browne has taken in April 1997 where he served as the thrust on optimised solution over as Chief of Air Staff. Defence Attache till July 2000. From March A Born in Allahabad on 15 2007 to 31 May 2009 he functioned as the CHUNK is a leading player in the December 1951, Air Marshal Browne was Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS) at Air field of precision tool holding, work commissioned into the Fighter stream Headquarters and was responsible for Sholding and automation technology of Indian Air Force on 24 June 1972. With lAF’s major Modernization Programmes. of over 65 years. The experience has resulted about 3100 hours of flying to his credit, he Before taking over as the Vice Chief of in unique, productive and many a times, has had a varied operational experience the Air Staff (VCAS) at Air Headquarters proprietary advantages and niche which has that included flying Hunters, all variants of on 01 January 2011, he was the AOC-in-C always been guided by the corner stones of MiG-21s, Jaguars and SU-30s. of Western Air Command, lAF’s most vital customer centric advantage for which, the An alumnus of National Defence operational Command. Under his command brand commands today, a premium position Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, he is a and personal supervision, the first ever for its products and services. The valuable Fighter Combat Leader, who has also landing of an AN-32 (fixed wing aircraft) took experience is evident with its wide choice served as an instructor at the Tactics and place at Nyoma, advance Landing Ground of products “one for every application”. Air Combat Development Establishment (ALG), located at an altitude of 13,300 feet SCHUNK believes that every application is (TACDE) - a premiere flying establishment on 18 September 2009. specific and selective that needs a much of the IAF and the Tri-services Defence Air Marshal Browne is recipient of Param optimised solution rather than a generic Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington. Vishist Seva Medal (PVSM), Ati Vishist Seva one. the use of a TENDO extension is normally the ROTA NCS also has a high-precision A graduate of the Air Command and Medal (AVSM), Vayu Sena Medal (VM) and PRISMO, the tool grinding toolholder, is enough, and it can be equipped with 6-jaw chuck. During clamping of thin- Staff College, USA, he had trained with is appointed as one of the Honorary ADCs now available with manual actuation. It is various standard tools as required. walled and uneven components, the 6 the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the United spanning 38 years, he has held various to the President of India. attached as a substructure to the PRISMO, The ROTA NCL lightweight lathe oscillating jaws ensure maximum run-out Kingdom, on Jaguar aircraft and went operational and staff appointments Married to Mrs Kiran Browne, they have and allows stationary application at chuck defines efficiency for turning accuracy and minimum deformation at on to command a Jaguar Squadron that include - Joint Director at Air War a son, Omar, a fighter pilot in the IAF and cylindrical grinding machines, tool grinding operations. The ROTA NCL steel version the work pieces. The 3-jaw power chuck subsequently. Strategy Cell at Air Headquarters, Chief a daughter Alisha, who is working with a machines or lathes. This innovative tool weighs about 35 % less compared to type ROTA NCD is particularly well suited During his long and distinguished career Operations Officer and Air Officer multinational company. grinding toolholder clamps every shank conventional power chucks of the same for users who machine several work diameter between 5 and 20 mm. size. Therefore faster acceleration at pieces on one machine and can reduce document under the IT Act 2000. With The TENDO SVL tools with a shank reduced energy consumption is possible. set-up times and costs with the high- this, the IAF would be able to put in diameter of 6 mm, can be directly clamped A new type of double cylinder guidance performance lathe chuck. IAF to receive license to place a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), without the use of intermediate sleeves, of the base jaws ensures that the forces ROTA NCL lathe chuck is hermetically which is a practical strategy for achieving making them highly precise. The TENDO are evenly distributed on the chuck sealed against dust and coolant, and is information security in today’s highly SVL transforms almost every precision body. With its large through-hole, the mostly maintenance-free. Its low height networked environment. An essential tool holder into a flexible tool, perfect to lathe chuck is almost maintenance-free, leaves plenty of space in the machine issue Digital Certificates component for providing enhanced use in confined spaces. The high torque of completely sealed and permanently room. With the sizes 185, 225, and 260 the he IAF took another significant of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Dr N Vijay Information Assurance and Identity the TENDO SVL ensures a safe hold of the lubricated, making it perfectly suitable lathe chuck is universal in purpose, and step towards its net-centric vision, Aditya at Air Headquarters . Management Capabilities, PKI would tool during drilling, reaming and finish for applications in modern machining clamping forces between 75 and 140 kN Twhen the Chief of the Air Staff, Air As a part of the AFNET (Air Force provide data integrity, user identification milling. Instead of expensive special tools, centers. In addition to the 3-jaw version, are achieved. Chief Marshal NAK Browne was formally Network) Project, Digital Signatures and authentication, user non-repudiation, handed over the license to issue Digital issued by a license holder would provide data confidentiality, encryption and Signature Certificates by the Controller the legal recognition to an electronic digital signature services for programs and applications on Air Force Network. It would also issue and manage software and hardware certificates on the state- of-the-art IP/MPLS (Internet Protocol/ Multiprotocol Label Switching) network of the IAF. With this system in place, the IAF becomes the first defence organization and the second Government body,[first being NIC (National Informatics Centre)] to receive the coveted license. Air Marshal KK Nowhar, Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sanjay Sharma, ACAS (Signals and IT), senior Air Force officials and luminaries from academia, The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne receiving license to issue private sector and public sector were Digital Certificate from the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Dr. N. Vijay Aditya, among those who were present at the in New Delhi occasion.

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handful of technologically advanced India now has the capability to develop RDO has been flying higher with target. technology and system engineering nations, led to the DRDO scientists any type of strategic missile. The Armed significant success in recent strength of nation in the critical area of indigenously developing sophisticated Forces now have Agni I (700 km), Agni II Dtimes. The surface-to-surface DRDO, in fact, has the vision to make defence technology. weapon systems and technologies (2,000 km) and Agni III (3.500 km) in their Prithvi (P-II) Missile was successfully flight- India prosperous by establishing world DRDO had been the leader in the like Agni and Prithvi series of strategic arsenal. The DRDO now plans to test fire tested at Launch Complex-III, Integrated class science, technology and systems national effort along with its partners that missiles, Arjun- Main Battle Tank, Tejas- Agni-V by the year end and this missile Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Balasore and engineering base and provide our Defence include the armed forces, the industry and Light Combat Aircraft, nuclear powered enable hit targets at ranges of 5,000 km. Orissa, recently. Services decisive edge by equipping them leading academic institutions. submarine- Arihant, wide range of radar The other missile systems now inducted Prithvi-II, the first indigenous surface- with internationally competitive systems A giant organisation in its 54th year, i.e. systems and electronic warfare systems. into the Services include Prithvi (road to-surface strategic missile, capable of and solutions. DRDO, today is among the world’s largest The DRDO has lived up to its tag line mobile) and Dhanush (ship launched attacking targets at a range of 350 km, Agni, Prithvi, Akash! The three among and most diversified R&D institutions ‘Balasya mulam vigyanam’ i.e. the source missile) series of surface-to-surface reaches the pre-defined target in the five Panchtatva! However these names generating cutting edge technologies for of strength is Science. It is Science that missiles. These nuclear capable platforms Bay of Bengal with a high accuracy of today, together with Tejas, Arjun, reliable defence and credible deterrence drives the nation in war and peace. DRDO provide effective deterrence and credible more than 10 m. All radars and electro- Dhanush, Varunastra, Sarvatra, Rohini, against any potential misadventure. The has firm determination to make the nation second strike capability. optical systems located along the coast Bharani, Ashlesha, Samyukta, Sangraha, innumerable obstacles to restrict India strong and self reliant in terms of Science An integrated life support system monitored the flight path of the missile, WLR (Weapon Locating Radar) among and DRDO in particular, in the field of and Technology especially in the field of (ILSS) for fighter aircraft, a state of the art and an Indian Naval ship located near the many others, symbolise the science, various technology denial regimes by military. technology that enables the fighter pilot

A e r o m a g 12 A e r o m a g 13 Today Indian armed forces are the only Talent Search, induction of fresh PhD one in the world possessing a BrahMos graduates, online selection fvor NRIs and class missile. selection of scientists under Lateral Entry DRDO developed ecosystem The DRDO had indigenously designed, Scheme. DRDO has contributed a lot towards development of Indian Private Industry in the developed and led the production of Tejas In addition to striving for accomplishment defence sector. With the launch of the LCA (Tejas) Programme, DRDO has developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). Ten Tejas of goals, DRDO has undertaken several an ecosystem with the support of users, academia, and private and public industries aircraft have completed more than 1,650 new technology initiatives in the areas of for design, development and manufacturing of aerospace and aviation products. flights. The first naval variant of LCA has Cyber Security, Space Security, and Energy According to Mr Ravi Kumar Gupta, Scientist G & Director, Directorate of Public also rolled out and will equip our aircraft Security. In view of the growing threats Interface, DRDO Hqrs Public Interface, DRDO, all the partners have benefited carriers. With the success of Nishant (short of cyber attacks and data theft, there is immensely by this DRDO initiative. range) and Rustom-1 (medium endurance) a need to develop our own computer In the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft programme, HAL, Indian Air Force, IITs, IISc, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), it had operating system so that the source code various DRDO labs, private and public sector industries actively participated as demonstrated capability to design, and complete architecture is known to development partners. Now India has developed its own design capability and also develop and lead to the production of it and any malicious attempts of cyber design and development facilities. such platforms and various associated attacks are thwarted. technologies, components and sub There is a need to develop technologies another DRDO product forming main stay system such as mobile bridges, Armoured systems such as advanced structural for protection, detection, and mitigation of our armed forces as well as paramilitary dozers, Armoured ambulances, Armoured composites, Flight Control Systems, of cyber threats. DRDO has launched forces. engineering vehicles, NBC recce vehicles, Actuators, Sensors and so on. projects covering development of In the field of electronic warfare, counter mining flails, smart anti tank Two regiments of India’s first indigenous operating systems, hardened communication and radars, Artillery mines etc. indigenously designed, developed and network hardware, and network security Combat Command Control System Safety and efficiency of soldier, the man productionised Main Battle Tank “MBT- devices. In the field of Space Security, (ACCCS), Indian Doppler Radar INDRA-I behind machines under the most diverse to venture to the limits of the aircraft Prithvi Dhanush and Shourya, covering Arjun Mk-I” had been raised and inducted it has launched programme for space & II, Rajendra - multifunction phased battlefield conditions (extremes of cold capability in terms of flight altitudes and wide range (150 km to 3500 km). in the Army. With its excellent mobility surveillance and security. Under Energy array radar, Super Vision Maritime Patrol and heat, mountains, deserts, tropical G-forces. This technology had been the The DRDO had also carried out series & maneuverability especially in desert Security, a 2-MW plant is planned for Radar (SV-2000 MPAR), Avalanche Victim forests and so on) is a high priority and hallmarks of the few highly advanced of successful trials of Air Defence System combined with state of the art armour DRDO has developed many Life Support countries. Now Defence Bioengineering against ballistic missiles of up to 2000 km and accurate firepower it is rightly called Systems for Armed forces. Some of these & Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL) class, for both exo- atmospheric (80 km “king of desert”. products are Combat Free Fall system Bangalore, under DRDO, has taken a lead altitude) and endo- atmospheric (15 km The DRDO had attracted young capable to withstand the harsh conditions in this technology that, to start with, will altitude) interception. students to take up defence, science and of free fall from 30,000 ft., NBC Canister, go into Tejas aircraft. The engineering BrahMos supersonic cruise missile for technology as career option. Competent Water Poison Detection Kit, Portable model of ILSS prototype has been rolled Army and Navy is a glowing example of manpower is inducted into DRDO through Decontamination Apparatus, NBC Filters/ out from DEBEL, Bangalore. the first ever joint design and production several schemes such as All India DRDO Ventilation systems, Packaged ready The Infrastructural facilities created by of a weapon system by India and Russia. Scientist Entry Test (SET), Annual Campus to eat foods, High Altitude Pulmonary DRDO are national assets and include Oedema (HAPO) chamber, Heating Gloves Integrated Instrumented flight Test & Socks for extreme cold conditions, Bio- Range, Structural Dynamics & Vibration digestor for treatment of human waste Test facility for aircraft, electronic warfare in extreme cold conditions, NBC for high Test ranges, Propulsion and Ballistics test altitude medical products and Advanced facilities, underwater Weapon Test Ranges H1N1 kit for detection of swine flu. and Test Tracks for land systems etc. A large number of Naval Systems, DRDO’S LIMELIGHT materials and technologies have been DRDO has been focusing on futuristic developed and inducted by Navy. Ship- technology development and a roadmap borne sonar HUMSA, Air borne dunking ‘Defence Technology Vision 2050’ is being sonar MIHIR, Submarine-sonar USHUS, framed. The DRDO is presently working producing flexible CIGS-based solar cells. Detector (AVD), Battle Field Surveillance Torpedo Advanced Light TAL, Advanced on designing a 1500 horsepower engine Initiatives have been taken to develop Radar-BFSR, a man-portable, battlefield Panoramic Sonar Hull mounted (APSOH), and artillery guns of 155 mm calibre’. technologies to combat Low Intensity and perimeter surveillance radars have PACHENDRIYA - integrated submarine In terms of tangible outputs, DRDO had Conflict (LIC). been produced in large numbers. sonar and tactical fire control system, developed a wide range of strategic and DRDO is seeking to leverage the benefits Auto-controlled Carbon Dioxide Control tactical weapon systems and complex of the offsets provision of Defence T-72 Ajeya tanks were upgraded with System, Poly-LIST Dockblock - a substitute technologies associated with such Procurement Procedures (DPP) 2010, with indigenous technologies and equipped for teak wood used for dry docking of systems. The production value of major the aim of bringing in critical technologies with Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA), ships, Heavy duty non-skid paint, AB class DRDO systems inducted/under induction into the country. The MoD is soon likely to Global Positioning System (GPS), of steel for naval applications, Underwater into the three Services during the last amend the DPP to include collaborations Integrated Fire Detection & Suppression Acoustic Communication System, Anti- decade stands at over Rs 1,20,000 Crores with DRDO in R&D, joint development, System (IFDSS) & reconfigured Smoke torpedo decoy system and Fuel cell with a modest R&D investment of about and joint ventures as eligible offsets. Grenade Discharger (SGD). Over 700 based power generation systems are Rs 3,000 Crores per year. CONTRIBUTIONS such Combat Improved Ajeya Tanks has some examples. The DRDO scientists did India proud by Over a million pieces of 7.62 mm Ishapore been produced. BHIM self Propelled 155 The most significant contribution of indigenously and successfully producing Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) developed by mm gun is another notable product, DRDO was the creation of a system series of strategic missile systems like Agni DRDO, were produced till these rifles designed and developed by DRDO, conducive to development of cutting edge (intermediate range ballistic missiles), were replaced by 5.56mm INSAS series, besides a wide range of battle support technologies by developing partnerships

A e r o m a g 14 A e r o m a g 15 with academic/research institutions and with are by one of the following routes, namely, ‘In house field of aeronautics. Nishant, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), had industries; creating exhaustive infrastructure, both, development in DRDO’, ‘Joint development through The “Rustom 1” has an endurance of 14 hours and successfully completed the series of confirmatory within the organization and the partners entities; National S&T labs and academia’, ‘Joint development altitude ceiling of 8000 metres. Rustom 1 has been trials conducted by the Indian Army at Chandan creating centers of excellence and establishing high through International collaboration’, ‘Acquisition of achieved by converting a manned aircraft in to a Range Pokharan recently. quality manpower resource. Matured Technologies through offset obligations’. UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) by removing pilot ADE had also conducted successfully the flight test DRDO today possesses a wide spectrum of Core The most valuable resource of the organisation is its seat and making required electrical, mechanical and of Lakshya-2 the Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA); was Competencies which include Systems Design & highly trained and motivated human power. DRDO aerodynamic modifications. built to meet the anticipated users requirements Integration of Complex Sensors, Weapon Systems offers to its staff adequate professional ambiance in DRDO has also successfully flight tested its latest for such a vehicle for testing out their guns and terms of flexibility of operation, autonomy, financial surface to surface Missile `PRAHAAR’ from Launch The DRDO capabilities have allowed the country to and managerial responsibilities. Advanced training, Complex III, off Chandipur Coast, ITR, Balasore, Orissa. DRDO and Indian Air Force have signed enter into pacts with foreign countries comprising career and self development needs of the scientists The Missile with a range of 150 kms, comparable to an agreement for series production of joint design and development of weapon systems are also given due attention. ATACMS Missile of United States of America, fills computerised pilot selection system (CPSS). and shift from the previous buyer-seller relation. After the examination of the P Rama Rao the vital gap between Multi Barrel Rockets and The embedded micro controller based CPSS Also, the defence infrastructure within the country Committee report by the Government followed by having built-in security features captures now allows the manufacturers to demand transfer the directive to implement, DRDO has appointed accurate, reliable and high-speed data relating of technology thereby allowing the Indian industry an “Implementation Committee” to work out finer to the skills of the candidates appearing for to imbibe latest technology and develop at a much details for implementing its recommendations. The selection as pilot. faster pace. implementation process is progressing under the guidance of an Advisory Committee. & Platforms, Complex High-end Software Packages, The committee has also recommended for private missiles. Functional Materials, Test and Evaluation, Technology sector participation in DRDO. The participation of The state-of-the-art system is an outcome of Transfer and Absorption. In addition, expertise and private sector is primarily in the productionisation collaborative efforts of DRDO and the IAF. It infrastructure have been built up for basic/applied of developed systems, through concurrent comprehensively evaluates the qualities required research in relevant areas, Quality Assurance & engineering. for a highly demanding job of a military pilot such Safety, and Project & Technology Management. There had been significant milestones along the as psychomotor skills, information processing skills The DRDO and the three Services carried out way. (speed and accuracy), coordination, visualization, detailed analysis to identify the products and critical A successful flight test of Rustom1 UAV was time-sharing, etc by subjecting the candidate to technologies that are required to be established conducted recently. It was the second successful perform concurrent multiple tasks. The system has within the country. The technologies are categorized flight of “Rustom 1” being developed by the been designed with built-in diagnostic facilities for into Buy, Make and Buy & Make categories, and Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a ease of maintenance. strategies evolved to establish them in the country DRDO lab engaged in pioneering R&D work in the DRDO has flight tested fourth consecutive successful Interceptor Missile test against Incoming Ballistic Missile in Endo atmospheric regime at 15 Km altitude and achieved direct Hit. Medium Range Ballistic Missiles. The Missile capable LCA Tejas, the country’s first indigenously designed, of carrying different types of warheads operates as developed and produced fighter jet has achieved battle field support system to the Indian Army. the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC).

A e r o m a g 16 A e r o m a g 17 private Industry. We are ready to guide them for improving the quality. We will support all our industry partners and we will take it as a Golden era for India responsibility of DRDO. We have instituted a tight quality management system from the production of prototype itself with industry in defence technology help. What are the other new initiatives of DRDO? DRDO has already started supporting the arena: Dr. Prahlada innovations in a big way not only in science and technology but also administration and management. r. Prahlada has just assumed charge as the Vice-Chancellor of the There should be synergy between Industry Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), a deemed university and academia. User, DRDO, Industry and Dwhich is an autonomous organisation fully funded by the Department Academia should work and should expand of Defence Research and Development Organisation. Before taking over, he vehicles, Fifth Generation modern combat laterally for understanding each other. was Distinguist Scientist and chief Controller of Aero Programmes, DRDO and aircraft development in collaboration with Horizontal integration, of these 4 entities had worked in the organization for the last 40 years. Russia, the LCA project and Electronic while their deep specialization have to Dr. Prahlada, born on 5th Feb 1947 in Bangalore, is a Mechanical Engineer Warfare Systems to all Combat aircraft coexist. Graduate from University College of Engineering, Bangalore University with Indian Air Force including LCA, MiG29, Unless it happens, we cannot have a (1969). Subsequently he got his Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering Sukhoi, Jaguar and Mirage. synergy. For increasing the productivity Department from IISc., Bangalore, with specialisation in Rockets and missile We are developing Aerostat of two and efficiency, DRDO should collaborate Systems and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru different size and capabilities. As a long with academia for research and also user in Technological University, Hyderabad. Since 1971 he has served in various ISRO term project we will have an Airship operation. Industry should be a part from and DRDO Establishments covering VSSC Trivandrum, ADE Bangalore, DRDL programme. Even though some of the development of prototype. Hyderabad and DRDO HQrs at Delhi. our projects are delayed, the end users There is no major defence programme As project Director for the mobile surface to air area defence missile system, including Army, Air Force and Navy have going on in Europe or USA because of their AKASH, he has provided the technological and managerial leadership for about 1000 scientists/engineers working at various developmental accepted all DRDO developed products current financial cries. Russian defence centers over 20 years in the country. Large orders worth more than Rs.25,000 crores have been placed by Indian Army and Air force for and placed orders. This has confirmed programme for the development of fifth production and delivery of Akash Missile System and associated radars. users commitment to indigenously In his position as Director of the biggest DRDO laboratory, DRDL, during 1997-2005, he has provided leadership to many missile projects, developed products once they meet their new technologies and world class test facilities. He was Programme Director for the Joint Venture Project (Indo-Russia) BrahMos and expectations. contributed to Project formulation, management and conduct of initial flight trials. He has spearheaded commercialisation of DRDO technologies into civilian products through a customised programme with FICCI. What details can you share with us Excerpts from an exclusive Aeromag Asia interview with him: on ‘Defence Technology Vision 2050’ roadmap being framed? For the next 20 years we will follow the You have taken over as Vice-Chancellor of fifth generation fighter Aircraft and has showed interest in the production LTIPP – Long Term Integrated Prospective of Defence Institute of Advanced BrahMos Missile. With USA also, we have of explosives detection kit developed Planning document of Defence Ministry Technology. What’s your vision here? technology collaboration. DIAT also have by DRDO. A Korean company has come for development of new products and My aim is to transform this Institute as a collaboration with NPS. So we can jointly forward for our short range radar. Ten more technologies. New initiatives cover cyber world class institution in advanced defence work with any country or institution technologies are also in pipeline and all security, low intensity conflicts and satellite technologies on similar lines as Naval for Research and Development and the 20 technologies will be transferred to based systems. Postgraduate School in USA. Technology development. In the UK, we commercial use within this year. We are working on combat aircraft, have technical collaboration with Academia We will continue to identify another 20 maritime Surveillance radar, Weapon What’s the update on DRDO’s and government. projects from 2012. locating Radars and Central Acquisition international cooperation? Could you radars. Next technology communication talk about some of the recent important Could you share your thoughts on Could you elaborate on DRDO’s focus and EW systems are on the anvil. MoUs and tie-ups, and are there any new recent developments in the area of on futuristic technology development? Considering difficulties experienced by generation fighter is also being done with agreements in the pipeline? commercialisation of DRDO technologies Some of the major areas where we are Could you throw more light on the 1500 Indian Army in requiring artillery guns, India’s support. We are working in close cooperation with into civilian products, and the road-map working for advanced weapons include horsepower engine and artillery guns of DRDO has been requested by the army to Thus, there is lot of potential in Europe and a number of countries and companies in you see for this kind of activity going Short range and long range Missile in 155 mm calibre that you are working on? taken up indigenous develop of 155 calibre India should tap and utilise this opportunity. the international scene. We have product forward? collaboration with Israel and France. Similarly Our own, we have taken a decision that guns. This is considered to be a golden era for development and technology collaboration We had identified 20 technologies for we are working on Air to Air and Ground with either foreign collaboration or with India. Since there are no major defence with Israel, France, Brazil and Singapore. commercialisation in the last 10 years. We to Air Missile development and Precision support from public and private sector, we How is DRDO able to meet the high programmes in developed countries will be We have Advance research cooperation adopted an open and transparent system guided munitions for future applications. will develop the tank engine of 1000hp and standards of quality and technology for ready to collaborate with India. with Kyrgystan, Belarus, Czech Republic, for giving licence for the manufacturing of In Aero Programme, we have world class 1500hp. We have also decided to make our its end-users? We should exploit and utilise this golden Government institutions and private 10 products so far in India. projects. We are developing Advanced own gas turbine engine for aircraft, marine The quality of defence product during opportunity to improve our capability Industry in Germany. We are closely Even some outside countries have also Indian AWACS, Rustom – long endurance, gas turbine engine for Ship though these production comes from industry. The and capacity in developing high tech working with Russia for the development showed interest in our technology. USA UAVs, Solar powered Unmanned Air are highly complex technology challenges. production part will be done by DPSUs, and engineering products.

A e r o m a g 18 A e r o m a g 19 modern metallurgical facilities and high Ordnance Factories, Gun carriage factory, furnaces of enhanced capacity. degree of technical competence for Navy , BHEL, L&T, WIL, Areva, to name a manufacturing a wide range of super alloys, few. What are the company’s medium and titanium, special purpose steels and other long term goals? MIDHANI special metals and alloys meeting stringent Any new investment, expansion plans With the growing demand of the quality requirements for application in going forward? strategic sector, MIDHANI is already in Aerospace, defense, Atomic energy, Power MIDHANI has embarked on an ambitious the process of expanding capacity for may set up second plant to generation, chemical and other high tech expansion plan funded by the MOD as well increase of production. But with the space industries. MIDHANI is unique in the sense as with support from Customers. Primary limitation of the present plant, it may that it is one of very few industries in the melting furnace -20T, Electron beam become imperative to set up a second world to have multitude of equipment unit to meet the ever increasing demands meet booming demand housed under one roof and this facilitates of the space, power and defense sectors. the production of hundreds of different Plans are afoot to formulate a long term Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited - MIDHANI has alloys in different forms. Equipment apart, strategy to achieve this goal. MIDHANI has a highly qualified and skilled embarked on an ambitious expansion plan funded by workforce which is well versed in the What is the hiring strategy of the MOD as well as with support from Customers, manufacturing process. Apart from the MIDHANI ? regular bars, flats, sheets / strips, wires, melting furnaces, 6000T forge press, Ring MIDHANI has been recruiting 20-25 says its Chairman and Managing Director Mr. M MIDHANI has also been supplying near net rolling mill, Wide plate mill and numerous Management trainees directly from the shape components to various customers. state-of-the-art equipment, are under premier institutions of the country every Narayana Rao in an exclusive interview to Managing procurement. These new facilities will year for the past five years, by way of Editor of Aeromag Asia, Sunny Jerome. The new What about the client base? enhance MIDHANI’s capabilities to meet campus selections, in order to replenish Space, Defense, Atomic energy, General the stringent Quality requirements and the declining strength of officers due to facilities will enhance MIDHANI’s capabilities to engineering and power sectors form the pressing demands of Customers in terms superannuation. As and when required, meet the stringent quality requirements and pressing broad client base of MIDHANI. Our main of quantities. In the recent past, MIDHANI personnel are being recruited in middle Customers are ISRO, BARC, DRDO, NPCIL, has already commissioned two re-melting and senior management levels. demands of customers in terms of quantities.

Could you share the operational MIDHANI is also actively collaborating with growing demand for fasteners presents highlights of Midhani in 2010-11 and research labs in developing new materials a novel opportunity where women’s what is the growth you are tracking in / processes. skills and strengths can be captured the current fiscal? in manufacturing these value added MIDHANI has recorded a sales turnover Could you talk about the fastener products. of Rs 417 Crores during the financial year plant that is coming up? 2010-11 and a net profit of Rs 50.4 Crores. Fasteners play a major role in machine What do you propose to do as far as The total tonnage produced is 3014 MT. building and the fasteners used in your MOU with SAIL is concerned? Innovative Technologies, Integrated Security Solutions This amounts to a growth of 12 % over the aerospace and other strategic sectors MIdhani is a high technology plant with previous year. Growth envisaged in current differ considerably from those used for know-how for many critical and strategic year is about 13%. MIDHANI is aiming for general engineering purpose. The market materials while SAIL is a giant in terms a sales turnover of about Rs 471 Crores potential for these fasteners is very high of capacities and capabilities. An MOU during the year 2011-12. and many of our customers from the between two such companies can be strategic sector have been sending us beneficial in terms of production of critical What are the initiatives lined up in the enquiries for various types of fasteners alloys on a large scale, scaling down of near future? of different alloys. Presently, bulk of the processes during developmental stage and MIDHANI has an ambitious R&D requirements is being imported. many more benefits, including availability program for developing new alloys The manufacture of these fasteners of products at competitive costs, to both. A for semi-cryogenic engine, special low requires very stringent Quality control task force comprising members from both XRD 3500™ alloy steels for armament and naval practices to be followed right from raw the stakeholders is already making an in CTX 9800 DSi™ CTX 5800™ applications, titanium and special steels material stage to the finished component. depth study of the areas where profitable HRX 1500™ for missile program and special steels MIDHANI has a quality system in place and meaningful contributions can be ShoeScanner™ and superalloy for Ultra Super-Critical which adequately takes care of this made. The MOU will go a long way in Itemiser® DX Hardened MobileTrace® power plants. MIDHANI is also planning requirement. In addition, MIDHANI has making available many strategic alloys for StreetLab® Mobile to contribute to the ambitious nuclear established manufacturing and processing critical applications for the Indian industry power program in a big way. In addition routes for special steels, super alloys and indigenously. to alloy development, MIDHANI has titanium alloys required for manufacture For more information on our products, please contact us at also embarked on indigenization and of these fasteners. So it was natural for Could you briefly talk about the +91 98451 30160 or [email protected] modification of equipment which has MIDHANI to get into this line of products. technological capability, facilities and www.morpho.com/detection resulted in fabrication of cutting machines, The fastener plant will be completely products of MIDHANI? sophisticated melting furnaces etc. managed by women employees only. The MIDHANI is an ISO 9001 company with

20 21 A e r o m a g © 2011 Morpho Detection, Inc. All rights reserved. CTX 9800 DSi, CTX 5800, ShoeScanner, HRX 1500 and XRD 3500 A e r o m a g are trademarks, and Itemiser, StreetLab and MobileTrace are registered trademarks of Morpho Detection, Inc. In Hyderabad, we have done another room to the badge readers, whether continue. I think there is no resistance on R&D centre actually. R&D is a service someone has to put badge to open the the part of Honeywell to grow on. centre, one of the key things we provide door or close the door before you enter Will grow rapidly in India, from Hyderabad is also, what we call, the airport -- all those badge readers, all What are the takeaways from Paris Flight support Services. Flight Support those control system for the full security, Air show? services is for example for the business the preliminary security of airport were Two big very clear announcements we aircraft. For these aircraft when they done by Honeywell. made, one was on the green fuel. This are planning a flight, let’s say it is going All the air conditioning control system, fuel was used first to fly from the US to says Honeywell to fly from Mumbai to Dubai-so we will all the lighting control systems, and the Europe. It was on Honeywell’s business from this Hyderabad centre, will get the runway lights are done by Honeywell. jet and it was used to 50-50 random of information on this date, on this time we So a lot of equipment into these large normal oil based jet fuel verses the green Honeywell expects to grow rapidly in India, Mr. Pritam Bhavnani, want to leave and this time we will arrive. buildings and structures to manage fuel. We have the process to convert President , Honeywell Aerospace India , told Sunny Jerome, So they will then plan out around it, give electricity, energy, and all those things are this into eco-friendly jet fuel. There are Managing Editor of Aeromag Asia, in an exclusive interview. them all the view points, identify them, done by Honeywell. So Hyderabad airport several advantages of the fuel that we get all the weather picture, getting all is the same thing, Delhi airport is the same developed. The company is setting up a research and development centre in the clearance while the aircraft is in the thing, all the new airport coming up, we All aero planes which use this fuel will Gurgaon to address its European business. Honeywell currently air, to follow them to make sure whether are working on Chennai with AAI and will have less carbon emission so they have has around 12,000 employees in India. A significant amount of there is any problem or not. work like this in future. to pay less carbon tax. They can save R&D and engineering works, as well as development of aero plane If there is any problem, they will send What are the short term, medium money this way. And the other thing to alternate airport, to book even hotel term and long term plans? in regard to this fuel is that, it is being products are done in Bangalore. Fight control system, avionics and to help them. By the time they land, Short term, obviously continue what we tested and certified by ASTM (American engine modifications are some of the key areas of development. It is hotel will already be there and cars are doing now, grow and expand. Medium Society of Testing Material). Once it is not like back office work; real work is done in Bangalore. Excerpts also will be ready to pick them from the term would be to do more research, certified, then all the refineries can start from the interview. airport, because for these people time more development but also not only for producing it, so the oil companies can is so precious. One of the main things products made and operated in western start delivering it to airfield use by the is supporting the flights of business world but also new products for India airport. How important is the Indian market Pune. So the volume has doubled two different from the crude oil in Bombay for Honeywell? years in a row and most of this being High and in the US and or in Russia. Each It is very important from multiple exported to Thailand and Europe also. It is crude oil has different properties. points of view. One, obviously, is people’s all coming out of Pune. talent, skill and capability. It is the very What are the new trends you are important part. If you look at the number What are the new initiatives coming? seeing in Indian Defence market? of employees Honeywell has, India is the I told you that, in case of turbochargers, I think Indian Defence market is going number two in terms of the headcount we are growing tremendously. In design to through certain changes. One of the after the US. and development engineering, we are elements is modernising of the aircraft. The second is obviously the market, growing tremendously. We are also adding If you look at the aircraft previously, the volume of business that we can have a new research and development centre the transport aircraft of Russian origin in India. Honeywell’s revenue in India in Gurgaon for our European business, designed from 70s and 80s that we is around USD 500 million of the total which is the petrochemical business purchased. Now the new transport aircraft revenue of USD 33 billion – USD 34 billion. where we will be going, what Honeywell which has been purchased C-130, C-70 So, half of the billion is coming from India. does in Europe. and they will start taking over the main aircraft and that support is done from specifically. Now we are starting to look This fuel has been tested on about 10 or Not that big now, but we are expecting to We actually design the process and the responsibility because they are more fuel Hyderabad for flights all over the world, at what is needed in India that we can 12 different types of aircraft in different grow very rapidly in the future. catalyst that are needed to convert raw of efficient, take off and land in a shorter not just in India but all over the world. design in India and make it in India for the engines in different parts of the world And also we do a lot of exports out feed stocks whether it is crude oil and L.G runway. They don’t need any finished Business aircraft in the US are also using Indian Market. This is a kind of medium like the US, Korea, Japan, and Asia. It of India – turbochargers for example. oil to convert to diesel, kerosene, petrol, runway or concrete runway. So there Hyderabad centre for this for example. term. Then long term is also when to take has been tested on Boeing aircraft, Air In Pune, we made turbochargers for jet fuel etc. That conversion process is is the advantage to those aircraft, they If you go on air with a good control development from both areas -- western force Aircraft, GE engine, Helicopters, companies like Tata and Mahindra. And what Honeywell’s knowledge is and we will get more use and there are a lot of from all these big TVs, tracking all flights development and Indian development Fighter aircraft of the military. All types also we export them to Thailand, Europe, are experts at that. Honeywell components on them. We are in US and Europe, Asia, India and the -- and apply it different places. We call it of engines, aircraft, and requirements and other places. Two years ago, we made So we have done one big centre in US working with the airports to establish the different parts of the world, they have all “Upon East for East and East for West”. are tested for the last 20 years. After all 400,000 and 800,000 last year, and this we and we will be setting up one in Gurgaon maintenance requirements, maintenance control over all these people, each one is East for east means India for Indian market these thorough testing, it is certified will go up to 1.5 million turbochargers in this year. Crude oil in Saudi Arabia is facility for Honeywell products. monitoring, helping, planning for future and east for west means the things we and now it is ready for the actual use. It flights of getting clearances and working develop for western market. is important from efficiency perspective, with the Airports for landing time and environmental perspective. arrangements What’s the update on the human resources front? Any joint venture? What are you doing on modernization I think it depends upon the business One we announced with SAFRAN for of Indian Airports? growth. It is hard to put numbers on that. electric taxi system, which basically would I will give an idea about what we had In 2002 or 2003, we had 1000 employees take the electric power from observing done in Hyderabad and Delhi Airport on in India, but today we have 12,000 power unit and use it to drive the wheels the new terminals. For example: Delhi employees in India. That means the of the airplane so that there is no need to Airport T3. All the security systems -- that growth rate is quiet good, so based on the turn on the main engine. In India, we don’t means from video camera to the control business growth, something like this will have any joint venture.

A e r o m a g 22 A e r o m a g 23 Soundar Rajan Shekhar Agarwal BEML, Secretary Defence Production DARE Director Alenia Aeronautica join hands angalore-headquartered BEML Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with aero giant Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A., Italy. The Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony releasing the Raksha Bhoomi Data CD for B Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A., is a global player in designing, building and services, in New Delhi. The Minister of State for Defence, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, the DGDE, integrating support complex system for both commercial and defence market Shri Ashok Kumar Harnal, Secretary (Defence Production), Shri Shekhar Aggarwal and worldwide. Its product portfolio includes proprietary aircraft products like the C-27J, the DG, NIC, Shri B.K. Gairola are also seen. the ATR42MP and the ATR72ASW. By this MoU, signed by V R S Natarajan, Chairman and Managing Director of BEML Limited Mr. Shekhar Agarwal assumed charge as M Soundar Rajan has taken and Mr. Alessandro Franzoni, Chief Operating Officer of Alenia Aeronautica, both BEML Secretary, Department of Defence Production in LDRA celebrates first year over as new director of Defence and Alenia will pursue a mutual collaboration for designing, manufacturing and selling a the Ministry of Defence. He belongs to the 1977 PAvionics Research Establishment, new primary/basic training aircraft on a new generation screener. This initiative will help batch of the Indian Administrative Service. Operations Director. “With educational a premier defence lab engaged in design, Ministry of Defence in finding a reliable source for its requirements of Basic Trainer Aircraft He has a vast experience of working in Home, Technical Seminar Date:programs September 7, throughout2011 the country, the development and integration of mission (BTA) and also a befitting replacement for the existing HPT-32 Deepak Trainer Aircraft. Finance and Personnel Administration and has Software Technology Location:India Hyderabad, office India has taken the LDRA message computor and avionics systems for combat BEML has recently diversified further its business into aerospace and acquired worked in all core areas of the Governments both of best-practice programming to our aircraft. land at SEZ Aerospace Park near Bangalore International Airport for establishing an in the Centre as well as in the State. He was Special DRA, a leading provider of clients, not only teaching them how to use Soundar Rajan commenced his exclusive division for the manufacture of aerospace components and aggregates, Secretary in the Ministry of Defence for the last automatedSoftware Best software Practices verification, for the Defence the Market LDRA tool suite more efficiently, but professional career in 1973 with LRDE. fabrication of structural sub-assemblies, Jigs for Aircraft structures and migrate in three and half years . He is also a Gold Medalist sourceThis one code day freeanalysis seminar and will focus test on tools, improving alsothe software ensuring they are well-equipped to During his tenure at LRDE he designed and manufacture of aircraft and helicopters in the years to come. from St. Stephen`s College, Delhi University. L development lifecycle and provide attendees with best practise has celebratedprogramming the first methodologies anniversary to show howof the to define, design build and and develop software for stringent developed digital communication systems. launch of a local officemaintain inat allBangalore. phases of development.verification.”Working with technology From 1978-1996, he was part of ADE Building on LDRA’s 35 years in best- partners, LDRA India has automated test contributing towards the Flight Testing practice programming, Who should certification attend: processes, seamlessly integrating with and LCA Avionics Integration activities. He • Project Managers • Verification Engineers and testing, • LDRASoftware India Engineers has developed• Process Engineers other design and development tools joined DARE (erstwhile ASIEO) in 1996. He CONSOLIDATE MULTIPLE TEST CONNECTIONS INTO • System Engineers • Engineering Managers contracts with• India’sSoftware Technicaldefense, Leads aerospace, already in the client’s tool chain. contributed towards the development and nuclear and other government-owned “Studies indicate a strong correlation integration of Mission Computer and other Versatility and Reliability Agenda public sector industries. between software quality and solid Avionics systems for the Su30 MKI aircraft in a compact connector ONE INTERFACE WorkingTime with Details LDRA’s international corporate profitability,” added Hennell. under the project “Vetrivale”. 8.45 am - 9.15 am Registration Joining i1 and iCon as the newest team of certification experts, LDRA India “LDRA brings this level of global competency As the Chief Designer and Project 9.15 am - 9.45 am Welcome note by LDRA member of the iSeries, i2 Micro iCon Reliable connections over has brought9.45 am - 10.15 the am sameBest IV&V level Practices ofby Oak standards Systems Pvt. 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Software in Domain- accordance to CERT C/CWEwhether by LDRA at home or abroad.” excellence in Self Reliance for the year specific2.30 pm Competency – 3.30 pm Case study Centres by LDRA have been Local experts in standards, such as IEC 2003 and DRDO Performance Excellence 0.8” footprint, with capabilities for established with major institutions and 61508, DO-178B, IEC 62304, ISO 26262, Award for the year 2008. discrete-wiring, horizontal and right- regulators in Military Avionics, Nuclear MISRA C, MISRA C++, and CERT C have also angle PCB mounting. and Defence, resultingFor more ininformation improved contact: drafted articles showing how to implement practices Tel: and +91 80 strengthening 4080 8707 Fax: +91 of80 4204 the 3186 local E-mail: [email protected] standards into software development www.ldra.com Defence regulatory framework in order to establish processes. Several of these articles have safer, more secure software systems. been published in American, British, Through a series of educational seminars, German and local publications. Operations contractors to LDRA India has successfully educated and Sales Director Shinto Joseph, an expert programmers,designers and verification in critical software development, directs the face pressure teams on the importance of incorporating LDRA office in India. efence contractors will face Mass InterConnect solutions better-quality practices into their product LDRA India will offer a series of significant pressures thanks to from 2-75 modules development. 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NASA research shows DNA building blocks can be made in space ASA-funded researchers have found more evidence meteorites Ncan carry DNA components created in space. Scientists have detected the building blocks of DNA in meteorites since The President of ICCR, Dr. Karan Singh delivering the theme lecture entitled “Rajiv Gandhi the 1960s, but were unsure whether a Visionary: Development and Growth of Indian Civil Aviation” at the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial they were created in space or resulted Lecture function, organized by M/o Civil Aviation, in New Delhi.The Union Minister for from contamination by terrestrial life. Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation, Shri Vayalar Ravi is also seen. The latest research indicates certain nucleobases -- the building blocks of our genetic material -- reach the Earth on meteorites in greater diversity and quantity than previously thought. Air Defence Ship to be The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that the chemistry inside asteroids and comets is capable launched in December of making building blocks of essential biological molecules. Previously, he Indian Navy (IN) has one aircraft The delivery of ship is scheduled in scientists found amino acids in samples carrier i.e. INS Viraat. To maintain December 2012. of comet Wild 2 from NASA’s Stardust Teffective presence in “our area of Regarding the ‘Air Defence Ship’ being mission and in various carbon-rich interest”, IN should be capable of deploying constructed at Cochin Shipyard Limited meteorites. Amino acids are used to carrier task forces in two geographically (CSL), 75 per cent of hull work has make proteins, the workhorse molecules separated locations, according to Defence been completed and is expected to be of life. Proteins are used in everything Minister A K Antony. launched in December 2011, after which from structures such as hair to enzymes, The refit and modernisation works on further works will be undertaken prior to which are the catalysts that speed up or board the Vikramaditya are progressing commissioning, Antony said. regulate chemical reactions. in an earnest manner. Consequent to Augmentation of infrastructure at CSL In the new work, scientists analysed Make a lot more parts in a lot less timesigning with of Supplementary a high-performance Agreements is underway. With the infrastructure samples of 12 carbon-rich meteorites, in March, 2010, the Russian side has and experience, indigenous Aircraft nine of which were recovered from Haas Drill/Tap Center. The DT-1 swapsincreased tools the manpower in 0.8 and materialseconds, Carrier-sized and ships can its be built at Antarctica. The team found adenine and resources considerably for the project. CSL. Additionally, India manufactures guanine, which are components of DNA 12,000-rpm spindle allows rigid tappingA majority to of5000 the equipment/systems rpm, with warship up quality tosteel, 4-timeswhich will reduce nucleobases. retract speed. And, 2400 ipm rapids andhave been 1 installedG accelerations on board the ship. dependence combine on foreign countries. to the event, with reduce cycle times even further. All thisHaas – for India a great announces price. inaugural booths for, for example, major CAD/CAM, HaasTEC Open House tooling, and Typical Haas Ingenuity. aas Automation has announced only directly attending one local show work holding Haas Automation that HaasTEC India will be held in the south of the country during this suppliers. Hfrom October 11th to 13th, 2011, year, so this will be a great opportunity Alongside the at the Chennai Trade Centre. This is the first for companies in the region to see the CNC machines, time a HaasTEC open house is to be held very latest Haas products.” LikeSimple. its US HaasTec IndiaInnovation. will also feature a selection in India, but the event will be modeled on antecedent, HaasTEC India is expected of Haas rotary products on display, the hugely successful HaasTEC that took to attract hundreds of visitors to see including the brand-new HRT160SS high- Haas Factory Outletplace at –the company’s India factory and global locationsthe company’s latest generation CNC speed rotary table. The HRT160SS is the headquarters in Oxnard, California, in machine tools, such as the all-new fastest rotary table Haas has built to date, telephoneMarch of this– year.022-27742181,range of9320178231 ST CNC lathes, including Y-axis providing a maximum speed of 570° per NORTH, WEST AND EAST AREAS: “We’ve chosen to hold the inaugural models. 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qn Ldr (Retd) Baldev Singh has taken over the charge of Director continue to set the standard SCorporate Planning & Marketing of aytheon’s active electronically scanned array radar technology achieved more HAL. than 250,000 operational flight hours. Used by customers around the world Earlier to this, he was Executive Director Ron multiple platforms, more than 300 radar systems have been delivered to Flight Operations and the Chief Test Pilot domestic and international customers to help ensure their mission success. (Fixed Wing) at HAL Bangalore Complex. “We believe Raytheon’s AESA technology is the cornerstone of future fighter Highly experienced in various facets of aircraft,” said Mark Kula, vice president, Tactical Airborne Systems, for Raytheon aviation, he has a total Flight Test experience Space and Airborne Systems. “No one offers Raytheon’s level of operational AESA of over 6000 hours on 55 different types of capability and mission support. Our leading-edge AESA technology is combat- aircraft. He is a Qualified Flying Instructor proven, in production, and available today.” and holds a diploma in Aviation Flight Safety Today’s changing threat environment drives warfighters’ need for technologically from the Naval Post Graduate College, advanced sensors that will keep existing platforms relevant and operational at a Monterey Bay, California, USA. Baldev Singh moment’s notice. Raytheon’s AESA radars provide a significant advantage in the joined the National Defence Academy in demanding fighter aircraft environment, ensuring customers remain at the forefront 1970 and graduated in December 1972 and of tactical capabilities to complete their mission. was commissioned into the Indian Air Force in June 1973 as a fighter pilot. After doing operational flying on Hunter, Mig-21 and Mig-23 aircraft, he qualified as Qantas reveals plans to expand a Flight Instructor in July 1983, and was posted to Air Force Academy at Hyderabad fleet with A320 family for Instructional Flying Duties on the Kiran antas has selected for the first time A320neo as part of Qantas’ international Aircraft. In 1984 he did his experimental Airbus A320 aircraft to launch its transformation plan and Jetstar’s pan-Asian test pilots course and was deputed to HAL Qnew premium airline to service expansion.” said Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO. in 1986. In 1989 and joined HAL. routes to/from Australia and the Asian “The A320 Family’s outstanding operational He was involved with the LCA Programme region. In addition, Jetstar has selected efficiency and comfort, paired with its from 1990 onwards and was deputed to the Airbus A320 to continue its growth in environmental credentials, make it the right the Aeronautical Development Agency Australia and Asia. The commitment to choice for Qantas.” for this purpose. He carried out the flight order a minimum of 106 A320 Family aircraft “Qantas is an exceptionally forward evaluation of these flight control laws at includes 78 A320neo jets, making Qantas looking and pioneering airline and we are the Real Time simulator at BAE Wharton the latest airline to select the world’s best delighted to play such a significant role in in UK followed by the flight evaluation of selling single-aisle aircraft. The decision to the company’s future strategy.” said John these control laws on the F-16, Lear Jet go with Airbus for its short to medium haul Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, and NT-33 aircraft in USA. He has extensive operations underpins the Qantas long term Customers. “In a fiercely competitive market test flying experience on five prototype strategy to build up a fleet of the world’s this is a great endorsement for our eco- programmes and carried out the first most fuel efficient and reliable aircraft. efficient A320neo and A320 aircraft with flights of the HANSA aircraft and the “We are delighted to be investing in Airbus’ their unique passenger appeal thanks to Intermediate Jet Trainer. fuel efficient A320 Family, including the new their wider cabin.”

A e r o m a g 30 A e r o m a g 31 communications engineers require tools using MATLAB and Simulink no longer for your aerospace offerings? that offer: test and verify that requirements are met Aerospace companies with engineering •A flexible environment to create the IP only at the end of the design process. centers in India need to compete MathWorks working with within the algorithms at the heart of the Rather, they test and verify throughout internationally for system design, modern receiver and the waveforms that the process, which saves time and money. verification, and implementation projects. drive the modern transmitter. High-tech domestic projects for civilian •The capability to design and analyze Can you share any examples where aircraft, space exploration, and defense academia as partnership timing impacts on the receiver algorithm, customers using MBD were able to require the usage of development such as signal synchronization and improve their designs? tools and methodologies that can feedback within the design for phase Aerospace companies today are facing reduce risk, cost, and development time lock. two major hurdles – they need to reduce simultaneously increasing productivity •A seamless path from floating point development time while simultaneously and enabling innovation. MATLAB and design to fixed point implementation to improving quality and they need to meet Simulink products are the industry- We view our work with academia more as a partnership, ensure that the component and system demands for greater system complexity standard tools for Model-Based Design where everyone involved –students, professors and the level performance requirements are not from customers and the government. and Technical Computing and enable lost to quantization error. Model-Based Design addresses these aerospace customers to move from industry, benefit from fostering long-term relationships, •An environment for system level across a variety of scenarios. internal research and development says Jon Friedman, the Aerospace & Defence and executable modeling that captures the A great example is using Model- (IRAD) to design and implementation in a digital, RF and channel effects so that Based Design for flight controls. A large single environment. Using a Model-Based Automotive Industry Marketing Manager at the engineers can analyze and verify that American helicopter manufacturer used design development approach enables MathWorks in an interview to Aeromag Asia. MathWorks system level performance is met a the Model-Based Design to develop the companies to mitigate program risk by design level before implementation. flight controls for a tilt rotor aircraft and sharing system specifications, analysis, recognises and works with a number of universities •A path to hardware implementation realized a 40 percent saving in software and test data. worldwide to help professors teach students the skills and testing. For example if the algorithm development time compared to previous is modeled and simulated, engineers may required by industry. want to automatically generate C or HDL code for implementation on a DSP or FPGA, respectively.

What are the trends and innovations systems today are expected to be mobile, Another segment of the aerospace What is Model Based Design? How can you are seeing in the aerospace work in harsh environments, overcome market where embedded control MATLAB and Simulink help engineers industry globally? active and passive interference, and meet and advanced communications are working in the aerospace industry? programs. MathWorks products are also Across the globe, we are seeing a variety of mission scenarios. Added to having an impact is in satellite systems. Model-Based Design, as its name One of the trends we’re seeing is the fundamental teaching and research engineers use commercial off-the-shelf these requirements is the demand for While the cost of manufacturing and implies, allows models to be reused need for code verification especially in tools in many of the world’s universities (COTS) tools to develop and deploy flexibility interoperability requires, which launching scales down with satellite throughout the design process. With high-integrity systems. Engineers at a and learning institutions. Could you embedded systems for sophisticated needs to be balanced with the proliferation size, the engineering development Model-Based Design, engineers create multi-national aerospace manufacturer talk about some of the recent forays? control and communications onto a of multimedia data streams that need high cost for satellites does not. Engineering and use executable models in the early working on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) We view our work with academia wide variety of platforms, but mostly throughput. Increasingly, the preferred development cost is mainly driven by the design stages instead of relying on paper program developed three variants of the more as a partnership, where everyone unmanned aerial systems (UASs)and way to meet all these requirements new technology incorporated into the specifications. The models serve as JSF using a common set of system models involved –students, professors and the satellite systems. Interestingly, all of this requires creating systems that combine satellite and operational complexity both executable specifications of the machine to simulate avionics, propulsion and other industry, benefit from fostering long- activity weaved through a move toward a software and hardware, using both of which are increasing. that enable engineers to validate and systems, and to automatically generate term relationships.MathWorks recognizes Model-Based Design. programmable DSPs and FPGAs. To meet verify specifications against the machine final flight code, which resulted in fewer and works with a number of universities For example, embedded controllers these market requirements, engineers What is driving the adoption of EDA requirements early in the process. engineering tasks when compared with worldwide to help professors teach continue to grow in sophistication are now exploring new paradigms tools in the aerospace and defence Engineers also use the models to traditional methods that rely on hand students the skills required by industry. and criticality to the systems which for development to create, test, and space? communicate specifications in an coding. Through our relationships with these they control. As a result, software deploy these types of systems, one that As described above, advanced unambiguous manner with their We spoke about aerospace universities, we have seen that students development organizations must meet focuses on creating and testing models communications are a significant trend in colleagues who may be working just down communications - here’s an example and industry alike benefit from students’ stringent software quality objectives that and prototypes before final hardware the aerospace and defence market place. the hall or at another company across of that - a team within a British defense hands-on training of real software tools are mandated by the organization itself or implementations, using COTS tools, In turn, this trend is driving the adoption the globe. Further, these multi-domain and aerospace company working on a and approaches, such as Model-Based required by customers or by government saving both time and money. of EDA tools because the complexity of models allow the machine designer to software defined radio (SDR) system was Design. regulations such as DO-178b. Applications for embedded controls the customer requirements, harshness of evaluate the complex interactions across able to reduce their rework and overall Integrating software into the For design teams to meet these and advanced communications include the operating environment, and resulting various engineering disciplines. Designers development time by a factor of 10 using engineering curriculum helps students objectives, and to ideally achieve zero- unmanned aerial systems (UASs), which sophistication IP created is moving beyond can perform rapid design iterations to Model-Based Design. It typically took gain increased motivation and valuable defect software, they are turning to continue to proliferate in the market. what engineers are capable of developing make system level tradeoffs between 645 hours for an engineer with years of experience; as a result, industry gains a state of the art testing and verification To meet the wide variety of civilian and by hand. Also, more system designs now various design parameters and optimize VHDL coding experience to hand code ready-to-work, well-educated talent pool solutions. This has created a demand defense missions the next generation need a combination of software and overall machine performance. This a fully functional SDR waveform using in the next generation of engineers. As for COTS tools that can automatically of UAS’s will need to balance potentially hardware solutions, which previously enables engineers to try innovative ideas the traditional design flow, whereas a a further step to our commitment in this generate code and provide code-level conflicting performance and robustness could have been implemented using and concepts for improving machine second engineer with limited experience space, we sponsor a number of student verification that help in compliance to requirements. These trade offs can be predominantly software-based solutions performance without the significant completed the same project using Model- competitions, such as EcoCAR2 and ET requirements, conformance to standards, assessed using COTS tools that are no that were deployed on programmable investment in time and resources Based Design in fewer than 46 hours. Robocon, where students are challenged and traceability analysis. longer domain specific and instead DSPs or microcontrollers. that hardware-focused development to solve problems they are likely to face in Similarly, aerospace communications capture the system-level behavior. To meet the market need, processes require. Aerospace engineers Please elaborate on the Indian market a work environment.

A e r o m a g 32 A e r o m a g 33 DI gets major contract Chamola is HAL’s ynCorp International (DI) has services for the Naval Test Wing Atlantic’s Director (HR) announced that it has won a fleet of test and evaluation aircraft and for Dcontract with the U.S. Naval Air the prestigious U.S. Navy Test Pilot School. Systems Command to provide aviation This includes all rotary, fixed, lighter- maintenance and logistic support at the than-air, and unmanned aircraft on-site Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, for project testing, as well as transient, Patuxent River, Md. loaner, leased and tested civilian aircraft “For 38 years, DynCorp International assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center has proudly supported the U.S. Navy at Aircraft Division. DI will also perform Pax River under the Contract Field Teams supportability/safety studies and off-site program, and we are honored to continue aircraft safety/spill containment patrols that support under this new Navy and aircraft recovery services. M Chamola has taken over as contract,” said Catherine Gridley, vice DynCorp International is a global Director, Human Resources, president of DI’s Aviation business. “As government services provider working VHindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). one of the largest employers in southern in support of U.S. national security and Previously, he was Chief General Manager Maryland, we have had a long standing foreign policy objectives, delivering (CGM) HR in BEML and he also has presence in the area and are delighted to support solutions for defense, diplomacy HAL’s exposure earlier as Addl. General continue serving the U.S. Navy at one of and international development. DI Manager (HR). Your reliable source for Special Metals our country’s premier aviation sites.” operates major programs in logistics, Having rich experience in various The competitively-awarded, cost-plus- platform support, contingency operations segments of HR coupled with unstinted fixed-fee contract has a base year valued and training and mentoring to reinforce efforts in streamlining the arena, HAL saw and Alloys at $92.8 million, with a total contract value security, community stability and the rapid changes during his previous term. of $490 million if all four option years are rule of law. DynCorp International is He rationalised the transport services, exercised. DI will provide maintenance headquartered in Falls Church, Va. brought in uniform system for canteen Critical applications in the Power, Atomic Energy, Aerospace, Telecommunications, services and shift timings to name a few Contracts signed with US firms of his achievements. On assuming the Petrochemical and General Engineering Sectors call for special metals and alloys which elevated post, he said, “it is challenging, guarantee a high degree of performance and reliability in demanding conditions like high rocurement of defence items is made from various indigenous, as well as foreign we need to focus on bringing in more sources including Unites States of America (USA) in accordance with the Defence transparent and uniform systems”. temperature and corrosive environment. Whatever may be the special requirement and PProcurement Procedure, according to Defence Minister A K Antony. This is a Chamola hails from Uttarakhand and application, Midhani has the product. continuous process undertaken for the modernization of the Armed Forces to keep did his post graduation in MA (Economics) them in a state of readiness to meet any eventuality. 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He was instrumental in formulating the Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and training “We are excited to continue our Employees Voluntary Benevolent Fund facilities worldwide. legacy of superior performance for the Scheme in 1991 providing an immediate PO: Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad – 500 058, “For more than 20 years, Northrop MCTP customer,” said Greg Schmidt, relief of one lakh rupees to the deceased Tel : 24340253, 24340634, 24340293, 24343531 Grumman has provided the U.S. Army with vice president and general manager, employees of NTPC. 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A e r o m a g 34 A e r o m a g 35 HAL plans four new Subhananda Rao Chief Controller manufacturing plants

(Aero) of DRDO manoeuvrability, highly integrated avionics suite, enhanced situational awareness, internal carriage of weapons and network centric warfare capabilities, officials said. A contract for preliminary design of the FGFA has already been signed between HAL, Rosoboronexport and Sukhoi. The Indo-Russian FGFA programme involves production of 200-250 aircraft. Agarwal said branch office of Bangalore-headquartered MTA Limited, the joint venture between HAL and Rosoboronexport & United Aircraft Corporation (UAC-TA) for the MTA project, would be opened in Moscow N C Agarwal shortly. HAL Director (Design & Development) MTA is a USD 600.7 million project, to be equally shared between the Indian r A Subhananda Rao, industan Aeronautics Limited and Russian partners. Distinguished Scientist of has plans to set up four On the LUH programme, he said the DDRDO, has taken over as Chief Hmanufacturing plants for the Controller (Aero) at Bangalore. production of medium multi-role combat A gold medalist in B.E [Mech. aircraft, light utility helicopter, fifth Engineering] from National Institute generation fighter aircraft and multi-role of Technology [NIT], Warangal (1973) transport aircraft. and “Roll of Honour” awardee in M.E HAL Director (Design & Development), (Aeronautics) from IISc Bangalore N C Agarwal, said the Bangalore (1975), Rao did his doctorate from headquartered company, under the Osmania University, Hyderabad Ministry of Defence, is looking to set up design has been frozen, the drawings (2005). a new complex for MMRCA. are getting released and the parts are Serving DRDO since 1975, he has Government is to buy 18 aircraft under getting manufactured. contributed to the Missile Technology the MMRCA programme from a foreign On the armed variant of HAL’s advanced at A.S.L [Advanced Systems manufacturer, with the remaining 108 to light helicopter (ALH), Agarwal said: “We Laboratory], Hyderabad before he took be produced by HAL under licence. have already done individual armament over as Director H.E.M.R.L [High Energy He said the HAL is scouting for a trials. Each one of them have been Materials Research Laboratory], Pune in location for manufacture of light utility separately tried. 2004. helicopter (LUH), and once it’s identified, Now, we have to do it in a joint, Winner of many awards in the field government approval would be sought. combined mode. And that is slated to be of Aeronautics, Rao replaces Dr. Separate factories have also been completed at the end of the year”. Prahlada who moved to Pune as Vice proposed for fifth generation fighter HAL would design and develop a new Chancellor of D.I.A.T [Defence Institute aircraft (FGFA) and multi-role transport indigenous turboprop trainer, for which of Advanced Technology], a deemed aircraft, he said, adding, as per initial it has sought Government approval. University. plans, MTA would be manufactured in Agarwal said HAL plans to offer Rao is also holding concurrent charge Kanpur and FGFA in Nasik. performance based logistics (PBL) as Director GTRE since June 2011. As Agarwal said work has started on the solutions to maintain the customers’ most of the aero cluster labs are situated preliminary design of FGFA. “Russian assets in optimum flying condition. at Bangalore, Rao will be functioning team is here (in Bangalore) to train our It’s in final stage of discussions with at Bangalore to spearhead various people”, he said. IAF, he said. HAL is likely to start this technology development programmes FGFA is a USD six billion project, to be initiative with the Hawk programme. of DRDO like LCA, UAVs, Kaveri, Avionics equally shared by India and Russia. He said huge manpower of several and Early Warning System. FGFA would have advanced features hundreds would be required to roll out such as stealth, super cruise, ultra- such an offering.

A e r o m a g 36 A e r o m a g 37 Systems, Honeywell, Snecma, Heico, Tyco Electronics, Eaton and Moog Aerospace. Aerospace Engineers This enables Aerospace Engineers to offer advanced technological solutions competitively and competently. take up new endeavours To take advantage of opportunities and to emerge as global brand, Aerospace effective through the company’s unique Engineers has established one of its wings capabilities. in Dallas, the USA. Aerospace Engineers, operates in two The participation of Aerospace Engineers segments: the Precision Parts Division in the NADCAP training programme proves - Group (PPD) and the Non-Metallic its commitment to improvement and Manufacturing Group. The PPD Group excellence in special process. Its pursuit for designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, perfection is reflected in the establishment distributes and overhauls metallic parts of NABL accredited Laboratory in the new & LRU parts that extend over the entire plant launched recently. helicopter & aircraft, from the engines Aerospace Engineers’ recent remarkable all the way to hydraulic, pneumatic, triumph is the development of Main structures, and even interiors. Gear Box Lubrication Oil Pump for The Non-Metallic Manufacturing Helicopter which has secured approval Group produces all Synthetic Rubber & from Air Worthiness Authorities and an Engineering Plastic components serving “AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN AEROSPACE niche segments of the aerospace and INDIGENISATION” from SIATI. In addition, defence industries. it has also developed Aerospace metallic R.Sunder By combining state-of-the-art & non-metallic hoses for Hydraulic CEO technologies, a team of highly skilled & Pneumatic applications, Fittings, Aerospace Engineers members in both segments with an Connectors, Tail Rotor bearings, and

erospace Engineers is the Precision aerospace parts Amanufacturing industry certified with the prestigious AS9100B, established by R Sundaram to cater to aeronautical requirements. Its elaborate and accurate technical testing devices authenticated with systematic documentation have earned it the approval of Defence Research & Development Organisation. With steady growth, expansion and diversification, Aerospace Engineers commands a strong presence in the manufacturing of Precision parts and Non-Metallic parts. It also has vibrant businesses in the manufacturing sector. Aerospace Engineers today is dramatically different from the company created in 2002. Aerospace Engineers, one of India’s most respected manufacturers of rubber products, is now a developer of critical, indisputable commitment to quality, has Aeronautical Precision parts. high precision aircraft components and constantly delivered invaluable solutions The latest endeavour of Aerospace global supplier in the area of aerospace, to customers over the years, helping them Engineers is to develop Elastomer Bearing, and defence. This constructive growth has to position themselves as leaders within Fuel Pump, Fuel Dump Valve and Fuel strengthened the firm’s underlying values their industries. Shut off Valve. of entrepreneurship and innovation. Aerospace Engineers, with steady growth, Aerospace Engineers gratefully recalls Aerospace Engineers has manufactured expansion, diversification and proven in- the able guidance and helping hand about 5,000 parts that comply with house capabilities in Design, Development extended by HAL, DRDO CEMILAC, Global Aviation requirements with and Manufacturing, has been widening its DGAQA and DGCA, which have enabled it rigorous quality standards endorsed by scope for vibrant businesses by establishing to take up successful ventures. regulating authorities. The primary focus ties with internationally reputed companies Aerospace Engineers’ mission now is to is to enhance customer value by making and OEMs such as HAL, Boeing, Airbus, work towards NadCap certification, NABL aircraft safer, more reliable and more cost- Sikorsky, Meggitt, Goodrich, TATA Advanced Certification, and FAA Certification.

A e r o m a g 38 A e r o m a g 39 Real-Time and Historical Situational Awareness of Birds with Avian Radar

tracked, target information tracks, aircraft tracks, or both includes date, time, Track-ID, and simultaneously, to local and target latitude, longitude, altitude, remote users, providing immediate speed, heading, and RCS updated awareness of the location of birds. every couple of seconds (see These displays are rich in content figure). These tracks are organized showing current (and recent past) and stored continuously in our M3™ bird locations overlaid on a map multi-radar, multi-mission, multi- with speed, heading, size (RCS), user target information system etc. immediately viewable. while simultaneously providing For users that find the real-time real-time (tactical) and historical monitoring display too rich or who (strategic) situational awareness do not wish to watch the screen but information products or tools for only be alerted to situations that local and remote users. pose a significant risk, real-time In recognition of the sheer volume alerts can be issued automatically of bird track data generated by when such conditions arise. Alerts Accipiter avian radars, a few real- can be sent to remote users using time and historical tools derived text messaging or e-mails that from these data are examined to indicate a particular, user-defined, demonstrate improved situational safety exclusion zone has been awareness for airport stakeholders. breached by birds. For example, users could be alerted to the onset Real-time tools of migration or to the start of a daily Real-time tools are for tactical use commute of large flocks of birds by and include real-time bird traffic defining the spatial regions where monitoring, early warning alerts, the birds are expected to cross and Dr. Tim J. Nohara, was validated. Furthermore, guidance DoD1 [Brand] and the FAA2, respectively. and localized bird aircraft strike setting alerting logic based on the Accipiter Radar Technologies was generated on their acquisition, The hardware design of these avian hazard (BASH) display and alerts. desired density of birds. Inc., 576 Hwy 20 West, P.O. Box 939, deployment, operation, and integration radars and their software algorithms which Wildlife personnel need to see The BASH viewer display (see Fonthill, Ontario, Canada L0S 1E0, into military and civil airport operations. are responsible for clutter suppression, birds approaching airport from all figure) is another plan-view tactical Tel:905-228-6888 Fax: 905-892-2249 Accipiter’s avian radars played heavily target detection and tracking, storage directions that may present a risk display that is easy to interpret, [email protected] during the multi- year testing, with over and distribution are well described in of being involved in a collision with does not require a dedicated a dozen of its systems deployed at civil the literature. Their underlying target an aircraft, allowing these safety operator, and is ideal for providing ast year, two important milestones airports including New York JFK, Chicago information extracted by the radar personnel to disperse threats in situational awareness of localized were achieved concerning the O’Hare, and Seattle-Tacoma International processor is the basis for analysis and real-time or communicate them threat conditions. For this display, Lindependent assessment of avian Airport and at military airports including visualization tools. For each bird/flock to ATC and pilots. Knowledge of several safety exclusion zones are radars for use at military and civil airports. Elmendorf Air Force Base, Naval Air Station 3D regions of bird concentrations, tailored to cover important aircraft 1. Brand, M., Integration and validation of avian Small, airport-based, avian radars were (NAS) Whidbey Island, NAS Patuxent River, radars (IVAR), Final Report. Department of such as during migration, can be corridors reflecting local flight extensively tested by the U.S. Department and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. Defense, Environmental Security Technology used to alter traffic patterns when operations, and the BASH alerts are of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Federal The results of these scientific assessment Certification Program, Project No. SI-200723, necessary, minimizing the time programmed to trigger on specific Aviation Administration (FAA) and their efforts, the most extensive ever carried September 2010 aircraft spend there. bird/flock characteristics such as ability to generate high-resolution, out on commercial avian radars, are now 2. Federal Aviation Administration, Advisory Real-time monitoring displays the number of birds in a particular localized bird movement information available in two reports available from Circular 150/5220-25 Airport Avian Radar Sys- (see figure) show live bird safety exclusion zone, the time tems, 23 November 2010

A e r o m a g 40 A e r o m a g 41 Automatic generation of web-based, interactive, information products can quickly reveal patterns to users and provide them with quantitative metrics in support of their wildlife and airfield management efforts. For example, hourly, plan-view, track accumulations can be reviewed after the fact and can easily reveal visually resident bird movements, commuter movements, and migration. Temporal variations in bird activity are easily visualized and quantified using histograms (see figure). Daily abundance graphs (on a 24-hour scale, calculated every 15 minutes or every hour) reveal daytime and nighttime activity, with transitions around dawn and dusk. they spend there, their speed, RCS (related to size), heading, etc. Moderate and or Dish antennas provide 3D lat, long, severe BASH alert logic are established and height information and allow us to ground-truthed by the wildlife personnel optimize radar coverage to cover in consultation with airspace managers for Real-time TrackViewer display showing bird tracks with size (units are dBm2) indicated complete aircraft pattern where each and every safety exclusion zone to on the head of the track. Can also display speed, height and Track-ID. Eight bird hazards can occur. Resulting BASH reflect local risk conditions. Such a display exclusion zones defined in this example around the pattern, each zone programmed to alerts are localized in 3D space and can be beneficial for airport operations automatically issue BASH alerts. No alert is issued for a low. A particular alert is issued hence alert to actual threats to rooms, the Wing and even in the tower for a moderate or severe. Thresholds for each zone are programmed based on user- aircraft. cab for air traffic controllers. This tool is define target behavior in each zone. Alerts from any number of radars are transmitted easy to interpret with just a quick visual to the BASH Viewer software for integration and display. glance and, hence, works well in situation rooms where operators are extremely busy with other tasks and cannot afford Graphs can be easily calculated for a the time to stare at a screen or review text particular day, or averaged over a month, messages. A safety exclusion zone on the for example. For longer term trends in display lights up yellow for moderate and abundance, yearly views by week or red for severe BASH levels in response to month reveal seasonal variations, and the respective alert logic. When a zone/ allow or comparisons from year to year alert is triggered, the bird tracks that to be used in measuring, for example, triggered the alert also appear on the Standard Accipiter® AR-2 Avian Radar with dish and array antennas the effectiveness of habitat alterations in display so operators know precisely where reducing bird populations. the birds are within the breached zone. If Height distributions can be presented in there are no zones that are triggered at a similar fashion and provide an effective the moderate or severe level, the display way to understand altitude concentrations is blank indicating that the BASH is low around an airfield. everywhere. In the same way that track data are stored indefinitely, 24/7/365, so are BASH alerts, Historical tools suitably named and date/time stamped. As Strategic tools include accumulated a result, spatial and temporal patterns (i.e., avian traffic patterns, bird abundance against time of day, season, year-to-year) and distribution patterns, and an associated with local moderate and severe airport-based dynamic BASH advisory. alerts can be generated and analyzed in Strategic tools exploit historical bird support of flight planning and wildlife track data recorded minutes to years management. The intrusion statistics are Real-time BASH Viewer display which receives automatically-generated moderate and prior to characterize spatial and temporal available for each safety exclusion zone so severe alerts from any number of radars and integrates them into a single user display. patterns of abundance, movements, and that a dynamic (i.e., automatically updated Zones light-up yellow for moderate and red for severe in response to issued BASH alerts. their deviations from long-term baselines. by the avian radar over time to adjust to Easy-to-interpret display gives immediate situational awareness of developing hazards. Since avian patterns are related to the long-term environmental and habitat underlying geographic features of the changes), high-resolution, localized, BASH airfield and surrounding areas, importing advisory system can be developed and flight planning, for wildlife management the baseline would be a strong indicator of tracks into geographical information maintained for each facility. After a year planning, and for heightened situational risk reduction and improvement in flight systems (GIS) can provide users with or two of data collection to establish an awareness at the entire facility. Reduced safety. Increases, on the other hand, will tools they are already familiar with to operating baseline, the BASH advisory can numbers of moderate and severe, direct managers to the local areas around Interior workspace investigate patterns. provide information for all stakeholders, for localized, BASH alert counts compared to the airfield that require attention.

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Mahindra Group and Eurocopter sign MoU Eurocopter, HAL to ahindra Aerospace and Mahindra Satyam – representing the aerospace manufacturing Mand engineering capabilities of the Mahindra strengthen industrial Group – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a trade partnership with the Eurocopter Group and its Indian subsidiary, Eurocopter India. cooperation, links The partnership will be focused on manufacturing of sub assemblies, engineering and customisation of civil urocopter, the world’s helicopters and the joint development of specific market leading helicopter segments. Details of the scope and structure of the Emanufacturer, and Asia’s partnership will be decided in the coming months. leading company Hindustan Noting that Mahindra is a long established and Aeronautics Limited (HAL), have respected multinational group with great engineering reiterated their commitment to and manufacturing competencies, Lutz Bertling, take their five-decade long relationship to the next level. The long-time President and CEO of Eurocopter pointed out that “the partners are in the process of signing agreements to further strengthen synergies between our two companies will enhance our their industrial cooperation and links. This association will focus on contributions to the Indian civil helicopter market.” increasing existing collaboration and exploring new potential business Mr. Hemant Luthra, Chairman of Mahindra areas to serve both Indian and international markets. Aerospace and President and Member of the Group “HAL is fast developing into a major player in the aerospace sector. Executive Board of Mahindra & Mahindra said, “We With this increasing pace of growth, HAL welcomes opportunities for are delighted to work with the world’s leading joining hands with a global player like Eurocopter. We look forward to helicopter manufacturer to contribute to the growth corroborating this partnership further in the coming years,” said Mr of the Indian aeronautical industry and civil aircraft Ashok Nayak, HAL Chairman. market. Eurocopter has a solid, long term strategy for Since 1962, Eurocopter has partnered with HAL, through two co- the growth of the India market, while we are already operation agreements, enabling HAL to manufacture more than 600 creating a niche for ourselves in the fixed-wing aircraft helicopters based on the Alouette 3 and Lama, more popularly known and aero-structures manufacturing space. We see this in India as the Cheetah and Chetak. This fleet has been the backbone of MoU as a significant step forward for both of us as well the Indian Armed Forces over decades. as the domestic aviation industry.” India was the first nation with which Eurocopter signed a license “Mahindra Satyam has been providing IT and agreement which included technology transfer. In 1984, HAL has been Engineering Services to the aerospace sector, and has supported by Eurocopter in the development of the Advanced Light been providing solutions to Airbus for the last several Helicopter, a 5-tonne twin-engine transport helicopter. This industrial years. We are already closely engaged with the EADS partnership was strengthened in 2005 with the manufacturing of Group and feel proud to be associated with Eurocopter, composite assemblies. Today, HAL is manufacturing 100 shipsets to provide our engineering capabilities for their range of these assemblies per year for the AS550/AS350 helicopters, and of products. This underscores our commitment and contributes to Eurocopter global supply chain.

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w partnership, shared development and affordable logistics solutions. helicopter manufacturer to have a dedicated Indian With the launch of its India subsidiary – Eurocopter India Private subsidiary. One of the key priorities of the subsidiary is Limited – Eurocopter demonstrated its commitment to the Indian to identify synergies and opportunities for partnerships market and industry, in which one of the key priorities would be the with local companies to strengthen the helicopter extension of industrial cooperation, further building on the 50-year industry in India. relationship with HAL. n o t h i n g c o m e s c l o s e A e r o m a g 44 A e r o m a g 45 Northrop Grumman T-50 stealth marks mile-stone fighter makes orthrop Grumman Corporation recently marked the completion of the 50th center fuselage for the F-35 NJoint Strike Fighter during a ceremony at the company’s public debut Palmdale Manufacturing Center. Ghana orders two Airbus Company officials praised employees for delivering the center fuselages on time and on budget – achieving a significant milestone early in the program while maintaining high standards Military C295 aircraft of performance and affordability. he Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Ghana “Completing the 50th F-35 center fuselage is something to has signed a contract with Airbus Military for the be proud of; it’s a sign of a team that is committed to getting a Tacquisition of two C295 aircraft. The aircraft are to be very difficult job done, and done right,” said Mark Tucker, vice delivered from the beginning of 2012. Minister of Defence president and F-35 program manager for Northrop Grumman’s Lt Gen. JH Smith, said the C295 will enable the Air Force Aerospace Systems sector. “I’m proud that we’ve reached such an to move troops and other security agencies across the important milestone, but I’m even more proud of how we’ve done country and within the West African sub-region. The aircraft it. This team is always identifying ways to do an even better job of will also be used for medical evacuation, paratrooping, building the world’s most sophisticated multirole fighter. And, 50 training and humanitarian operations including assistance -50 stealth fighter jointly increase in government defence spending ship sets in, it’s working.” to organizations such as National Disaster Management developed by Russia and India over the past few years have given MBDA unveils As a principal and founding member of the F-35 industry team Organisation (NADMO) and the peace mission of the United Tmade its first international public new incentives to the nation’s aircraft led by Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman is responsible for the Nations. The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Ghana is appearance at the recent MAKS airshow, industries. design and production of center fuselages for all three variants of a new Airbus Military customer. where Moscow unveiled its newest space According to the local media reports, the concept missile F-35 aircraft: conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL); short takeoff, The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Ghana selected shuttle, armed drones and a new range Indian version of the FGFA will be a lighter vertical landing (STOVL); and a carrier variant. Northrop Grumman the C295 because of its ease of maintenance and proven of upgraded weapons. Two prototypes derivative of the PAK FA. completes the F-35 center fuselages – the core structures around operational capabilities in any environment, including of the single seater jet, estimated to cost The projects for the joint development system which the aircraft are built – at the Palmdale facility. The center desert areas. Furthermore, its versatility and adaptability USD 6 billion, flew over Zhukovsky air field of Multimode Transport Aircraft (MTA) and BDA has unveiled the output fuselages then are shipped to Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, to the most varied type of conditions and operations were on the outskirts of Moscow. deeper modernisation of Sukhoi Su-30 of the Concept Visions process Texas, where they are integrated into the rest of the aircraft. other key elements in the selection of the Airbus Military “The co-development projects of the MKI fighters under the ‘Super-30” project Mfor 2011; CVS 401 Perseus In addition to producing the F-35 center fuselage, Northrop C295. Including this new order, today, 85 C295s have two countries will remain centerpiece of are among the key joint Indo-Russian concept missile system, which represents Grumman also designs and produces the aircraft’s radar and been ordered by 14 customers. Over 75 C295s currently the Russian aviation industry”, declared projects. the group’s vision of a multi-role strike other key avionics, including electro-optical and communications in operation in 11 countries have accumulated more than Mikhail Pogosyan, President of the United India has a larger footprint at MAKS-2011, weapon system for 2030 and beyond. subsystems; develops mission systems and mission-planning 100,000 flight hours. The new generation C295 is the ideal Aircraft Corporation, makers of the the air show which is held at alternate Perseus features multiple operating software; leads the team’s development of pilot and maintenance aircraft for defense and civil assistance missions to the aircraft. years, with an expanded presence. modes against a wide land and maritime training system course materials; and manages the use, support benefit of society, such as humanitarian actions, maritime Sukhoi’s T-50 made its maiden flight Unlike in the past when BrahMos JV used target set with the added capability and maintenance of low-observable technologies. patrol, environmental surveillance missions, search and in January 2010 and is expected to enter to display its deadly missiles under the of being able to overcome the most Completion of the 50th center fuselage is the latest in a series rescue, aerial photography, amongst others. All these service by 2015. “The stealth fighter is roof of its Russian partner, India has its effective of enemy missile defences. of milestones the program has achieved in 2011. In March, the special versions are already proven in service, confirming progressing as planned and the new exclusive stall displaying the models of its It is designed to be a tactical weapon company launched its Integrated Assembly Line, a groundbreaking the C295 as the most versatile aircraft in its class. engine for the plane will be ready in time”, cruise missiles, including an outdoor life- system operated through an advanced system that incorporates automation in the process of center Pogosyan said. size mock-up of BRAHMOS cruise missile Operations & Mission Planning System fuselage production. The fifth generation Sukhoi T-50, for the Sukhoi fighters. at the crossroads of naval, land and air More recently, the company completed the first center fuselage Elbit to supply DIRCM also called the PAK FA for its Russian Hindustan Aeronautics Limited also has warfare. The advanced supersonic (up for the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the second such delivery for abbreviations for a perspective frontline a bigger display exhibiting models of the to Mach 3), agile and stealthy airframe an international customer. Systems to Italian Air Force aviation complex, is meant to be a rival to helicopters and planes produced by it. is powered by a revolutionary ramjet “Programs that are committed to quality and affordability are the US joint strike fighter F-22 Raptor. This year’s new entrant is Bharat motor built around a highly compact the ones that can demonstrate momentum and success, and that lbit Systems Ltd has announced that it was awarded a Pogosyan had earlier said that Russia Electronics, with a whole range of its Continuous Detonation Wave Engine. is especially true of the center fuselage work Northrop Grumman contract valued in excess of $15 million by Elettronica planned to develop up to 1,000 stealth avionics and force multipliers. An advanced dual-mode sensor package, does for the F-35 program,” said Duke Dufresne, sector vice ES.p.A to participate in a programme to supply the fighters over the coming decade as A huge IL-76 Flying Laboratory of comprising an Active Electronically- president and general manager of the Strike and Surveillance ELT/572 DIRCM (Directed Infra-Red Counter measures) system aviation experts say that the Russian Gromov Flight Research Institute with Scanned Array or AESA radar combined Systems Division of Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems for installation on various platforms of the Italian Air Force, military orders will account for more a Kaveri engine fitted on its test bed is with a laser radar or LADAR allows for all- sector. “Day in and day out, through our first 50 fuselages, we’ve including the C130J, C27J and AW101. The contract will be than 50 per cent of the combat planes’ also indicative of the scope of bilateral weather operations in all configurations made these concepts central to our work, just as we’re doing on performed over the next three years. Adi Dar, Elop’s General produce. cooperation in cutting edge technologies. of terminal engagement. Radar modes all our programs. Our customers and our war fighters, deserve no Manager, commented: “We are extremely pleased with our He said that the Russian Air Force is The plane also bears the Seal of India’s such as SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) less.” cooperation with Elettronica on DIRCM that has resulted in this expected to buy 20 new fighters annually DRDO, showing an enduring interaction and DBS (Doppler Beam Sharpening) Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company initial contract for the Italian Air Force. The threat of MANPADS in the coming years. between the two organisations. allow for long range target detection and providing innovative systems, products and solutions in to military cargo planes, tankers and helicopters, as well as Top Russian aircraft makers including In all, over 800 Russian and foreign firms, discrimination in complex land and naval aerospace, electronics, information systems and technical services commercial aviation is increasing, and our family of DIRCM Sukhoi and MiG have survived thanks to including Boeing and Airbus, took part in tactical environments including those to government and commercial customers worldwide. systems provides effective protection to the aircraft”. orders from India and China, but steady MAKS airshow. involving advanced counter measures.

A e r o m a g 46 A e r o m a g 47 keep war fighters out of harm’s way,” says EADS broadens its General (USAF ret) Chuck Wald, Senior Indian Defence sector Advisor and Director, Deloitte Services technology licensing reach LP in the United States. “Products that are more energy efficient as well as remotely with new Indian agreements piloted on land, sea, and in the air will ive agreements signed by EADS aiming to be a part of have competitive advantage.” have extended the scope of the Traditional global governments face Fcompany’s technology licensing pressure to reduce defense budgets. outreach with new industrial partners in However, according to Tom Captain, Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, India and Europe. Global Aerospace & Defense sector leader, Secretary Defence R&D and DG DRDO exchanging the MOA global supply chain These accords involve a contract with Germany’s Grenzebach DTTL, there is a bright side for the global with Dr S Ayyappan, Secretary, Deptt of Agricultural Research & Automation GmbH for metallic production technologies based on new report by Deloitte Touche data fusion, directed energy, precision defense segment, with some markets Education and DG, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, at the friction stir welding solid-state joining process, along with four Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Global strike, and energy security. showing promise. DRDO Bhawan. Letters of Intent (LoIs) with one German and three Indian companies AManufacturing Industry Group, The Indian Ministry of Defence has set its “As India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and the for metallic and composite manufacturing processes. 2011 Midyear outlook for the global target of self-reliance in the Indian defence United Arab Emirates face security threats, The agreements were arranged by the EADS Technology Licensing aerospace and defense sector, indicates a industry. Nidhi Goyal, Director, Deloitte in and their economies allow affordability DRDO, ICAR initiative, which is managed by EADS’ Corporate Technology Office sense of unease in defense and optimism India says, “For meeting the target of self- for improved defense capabilities, new and has the company’s top management support in offering a full in commercial aerospace. reliance, Indian industry is not just preparing market opportunities arise for global range of leading-edge technologies that are proven, mature and According to the report, it is anticipated for building up a strong domestic industrial defense contractors,” says Captain. sign MoA available today. that there will be an upswing in sales RDO and ICAR have signed a Memorandum of Several of the accords will benefit from engineering and and production in commercial aircraft, Agreement for conservation of plant genetic resources application studies organised by the EADS Technology Licensing principally due to the popularity of single- Dat ‘Permafrost Based Plant Germplasm Storage’ at initiative, which provides assistance to industry partners in aisle aircraft, for which rate increases have Changla Top (5,360 m AMSL). identifying business cases and tailoring a technology offer that been announced. With passenger and The agreement was signed by Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Scientific is best adapted to customers’ specific needs. This supplemental freight traffic expected to grow faster Adviser to Defence Minister, Secretary Defence R&D and DG engineering support is offered to facilitate a smooth transfer of the than global GDP for the next 20 years, DRDO on behalf of DRDO and Dr S Ayyappan, Secretary, Deptt licensed technology into customers’ products and manufacturing the maturing economies of China, India, of Agricultural Research & Education and DG, Indian Council of processes. and the Middle East are expected to Agricultural Research, in a brief ceremony held at DRDO Bhawan. “Our new agreements underscore EADS’ ability to provide highly take a higher percentage of commercial DRDO has established a prototype National Germplasm valuable technologies in both metallic and composites production, aircraft sales and deliveries. In addition, Repository at Changla, Leh- Ladakh. The facility was launched on which will be applied to the aerospace industry as well as other with the introduction of new single-aisle 25 September 2010 by Dr. M. M. Pallam Raju, Minister of State for sectors such as automotive and industrial equipment,” said Wulf manufacturers, as well as next generation Defence, Govt. of India, in the presence of Dr. Saraswat. Hoeflich, who leads the EADS Technology Licensing initiative. twin-aisle commercial aircraft products, Dr. Saraswat, addressing the gathering, stated that this facility The licensing contract provides Grenzebach Automation GmbH suppliers worldwide are expected to will help to check the erosion of important germplasm by with access to EADS Innovation Works’ technologies for the friction increase production. base but is also aiming to be a part of global India in particular represents a near- preserving them at naturally available low temperature for food stir welding solid-state joining process, including utilisation of Regarding the global defense market, supply chain”. “This will further promote term opportunity for global defense and health security not only for our troops deployed in high EADS patented tools that provide a high-quality weld surface defense budgets in traditional markets economic development and job creation contractors. altitude conditions but also for the citizens of this country. and eliminate the requirement for post-weld machining. This are under pressure with lower budgets in India besides an improved industrial “With increasing security requirements “We started (while creating the facility at Chang la) in a small agreement’s scope addresses the application of friction stir welding anticipated for the next few years. capability”, Nidhi adds. for more sophisticated weapons systems, way, today there is a lot of demand that is fast growing”, he said. technologies in production of electronic products by Grenzebach However, the report outlines technology “Given the high cost of expeditionary overseas players could leverage programs Dr Ayyappan emphasized that this facility will provide an Automation, which is part of the Grenzebach group of companies requirements to address new adversaries campaigns, innovations that will be within the Indian aerospace, defense, insurance against both incremental and catastrophic loss of the with production facilities worldwide. and market opportunities in remotely attractive include increasingly higher and security industries to gain a cost plant diversity. “The preserved diversity of the genes will serve The Letters of Intent with India underscore the country’s ambition piloted vehicles, cyber security, bandwidth, precision, and accuracy in advantage. Also, the indigenous industry as a safety net for current and future food security in an era of to evolve as a strong aerospace player, which has become a priority intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, multi-spectral sensing capabilities, as well is set to grow and will look at building global warming and climate change. We are excited to have our after the Indian government’s step to privatise the aerospace sector. mission operations, system integration, as over-the-horizon strike platforms that capabilities,” says Captain. own version of permafrost facility, the only other such facility in “We now see a build-up in the Indian supply chain, which wants the world being at Svalband, Norway”. to become more capable and innovative – not only in supporting Speaking on the occasion Dr. W. Selvamurthy, DS & CC R&D (LS& Indian aircraft programmes, but in the export market as well,” Sarkozy announces support CIT signs MoU with Airbus IC), DRDO said the facility will be further expanded and opened Hoeflich added. IT Group Inc. has signed a MoU with Airbus for 50 for germplasm storage at international level. He also highlighted The Letters of Intent signed were with: to helicopter industry A320neo Family aircraft. other areas of collaborative work, such as nano agriculture, • India’s Dynamatic Technologies Limited, for metallic C The deal was signed at the 49th Le Bourget airshow climate change, biodiesel and the research on seabuckthorn. manufacturing processes such as friction stir welding, as well as he French Helicopter Association has welcomed the by C. Jeffrey Knittel, President of Transportation Finance at CIT Dr. R B Srivastava, Director, DIHAR, described it as a historic and EADS patented composites production technologies. This will be strong support to the helicopter industry announced by and John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer Customers. auspicious day. He also informed that DIHAR (Defence Institute of supported by an EADS engineering services package. TPresident Nicolas Sarkozy but asked for its extension to This order brings the total number of aircraft in the Airbus High Altitude Research), earlier known as FRL, was the brainchild • Maini Precision Products Pvt. Ltd of India for metallic and operators and users. order book for CIT to 241 aircraft, comprising 195 A320 Family of late Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, composites technologies, backed by an EADS engineering services The Association (UFH – Union Française de l’Hélicoptère) has aircraft (including the 50 A320neo aircraft), 39 A330s, and created with a vision of making the hostile terrain of Ladakh package. expressed satisfaction to the inaugural speech of Sarkozy at Le seven A350 XWBs. region reasonably green and productive. • Tata Advanced Materials Limited, covering a broad range of Bourget International Airshow, where he announced a set of A long standing Airbus customer and leading leasing Those present on the occasion included DRDO’s CCR&Ds, composites and related manufacturing processes, including the specific measures to support the helicopter industry in France company such as CIT has placed its first order for the industry’s directors, AFA, IFA and other senior officials, Dr. KC Bansal Director, EADS-developed and patented Vacuum Assisted Process (VAP) and and boost its innovation with the goal to maintain its current new benchmark in fuel efficient, single-aisle aircraft, the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources and ADGs from ICAR. protective coatings for composite tools. worldwide leadership. 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The Secretary of Civil Aviation, Shri Nasim Zaidi addressing at the launch of the 3rd International Exhibition & Conference on Civil Aviation “India Aviation-2012”, organised by the M/o Civil Aviation & FICCI, in New Delhi. USIBC welcomes aviation agreement he US India Business Council BASA demonstrates that India has the assessment and shadow certification has welcomed the signing of capacity to develop FAA certifiable aircraft procedure. They selected the Goodrich Tan aviation safety agreement articles and appliances, USIBC said. life raft which was designed, sourced, and between the two nations, noting that The BASA, by providing a framework built at the Goodrich facility in Bangalore it will pave the way for greater bilateral under which we can develop reciprocal under the oversight of the DGCA. Lova Drori trade in the sector. acceptances of certain aviation articles, Goodrich’s manufacturing and design Executive Vice-President “India-US Bilateral Aviation Safety stands to promote the burgeoning civil center in Bangalore is also a Tier-1 supplier Marketing, Rafael Agreement [BASA] will improve passenger aviation partnership emerging between to Boeing, assembling observer seats and safety and therefore caps the success of the our two countries,” noted Administrator manufacturing evacuation systems for a 2005 Open Skies Agreement, which opens Babbit at the USIBC’s roundtable large portion of Boeing aircraft. more routes, includes more airlines, and discussion on ‘Building 21st Century Both Goodrich and Boeing are USIBC greatly improves the ability for companies Infrastructure,’ held in New Delhi. member companies. on its strengths at both system and with the remaining held by the state- to engage in commerce between the US BASA allows aviation authorities such USIBC said BASA enhances the case for afael Advanced Defense subsystem levels. owned company. and India,” USIBC chief Ron Somers said. as the FAA and the Indian Directorate further investment in the civil aviation Systems Ltd, designs, develops, Rafael's highly skilled and dedicated In an interview to Aeromag Asia, Lova J Randolph Babbitt, Administrator of the General of Civil Aviation (DCGA) to certify industry and has far reaching implications Rmanufactures and supplies a wide workforce tackles complex projects, Drori, Executive Vice-President Marketing, US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aeronautical products and systems to for both Indian and US industry. range of high-tech defense systems for from initial development, through Rafael, said his company would consider and Nasim Zaidi, Civil Aviation Secretary, be introduced in American and Indian The next stage for both governments is air, land, sea and space applications. prototype, production and acceptance technology transfer and joint venture signed the agreement recently. “This accord markets, respectively, USIBC said. to sign the Implementation Procedures Rafael was established as part of the tests. It provides customer service and in India if the cap on foreign investment creates a safer, more positive environment The agreement also reduces for Airworthiness (IPA) which will provide Ministry of Defense more than 60 years support, upgrading existing systems and which is currently 26 per cent, is raised to for travel, resulting in a win-win situation for maintenance, repair, and operation (MRO) for airworthiness technical cooperation ago and was incorporated in 2002. offering turnkey projects involving the 50 per cent. both economies,” Somers said. costs associated with compliance and between FAA and its counterpart in India, Currently, 9% of its sales are invested transfer of basic technologies or complete “If we have to stay in India, we need USIBC said it believed that a BASA foreign certification approval processes. USIBC said. in R&D. Rafael know-how is embedded production facilities. to have local presence in India. Local between both countries would help India This cost reduction will directly benefit The IPA provides guidelines related in almost all Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Rafael's quality management system presence means ownership”, he said. upgrade its technology to world-class passengers and industry alike, it hoped. to specific activities such as approvals systems in operation today. The company is certified to AS9100, ISO9001: 2008 and “The higher share holding percentage we standards and harmonise its regulatory The signing of BASA comes after an FAA for design, repair data, production and has a special relationship with the IDF, ISO9000-3, ISO 17025, ISO 14001, OHSAS will have, the more encouragement we and monitoring systems with international team visited DCGA headquarters in New export airworthiness as well as post developing products according to the 18001, and complies with CMM and CMMI will have to provide to the technologies. best practices. Delhi and performed a complete technical design activities, it added. soldiers' specific requirements in the (level 3). The more shares we will have, the more field. Rafael has also formed partnerships Rafael aspires to strengthen its position willingness will be to have the 50% share”. with civilian counterparts to develop even further in the international defense He said the joint venture with BEL The ministry is considering restructuring the DGCA into a Civil commercial applications based on its market, while maintaining its special essentially means it is a government- Aviation Authority (CAA). In order to prevent repetitive accidents, proprietary technology. contact with the IDF. It aims to enhance owned company, adding, Rafael is not India Aviation-2012 an Independent Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Committee Rafael has created partnerships with its acclaim as a world-class provider of keen on similar ventures unless there is a has been set up within oversight of Ministry of Civil Aviation to companies in Israel and with leading quality defense products and excellent policy environment where it can pick up a to be held in March coordinate and oversee the investigation into accidents and also aerospace and defense companies customer service. It will continue to 50 per cent stake. effective follow up of compliance of recommendations. Steps overseas. Offset activities and industrial predict the needs of future combat forces “We don’t want that (another joint r. Nasim Zaidi, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation are under way to set up a full-fledged Independent Accident cooperation have been organised with worldwide and provide the technologies venture where Rafael gets only 26 per recently launched “India Aviation-2012”, the 3rd Investigation Board. Emphasising the passengers’ facilities and over 20 countries worldwide. Over the last and systems required by those forces. cent stake). Not because we do not trust Dinternational Exhibition and Conference on Civil consumer protection, he said that the rights of the passengers decade, international business activities In India, Rafael has a joint venture the government but because managing Aviation, which will be held at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad need to be respected and protected at all times. The significant have been steadily expanding across the with Bangalore-headquartered, Bharat a government-owned company is very from 14-18th March, 2012. Addressing on the occasion, Dr. steps for consumer protection has been taken through CARs globe, with Rafael acting as either prime Electronics Limited (BEL) in which the complicated. We don’t want to have the Zaidi said that it would be necessary to redefine the parameters on disability related rights, refunds, cancellations, delays, over- contractor or subcontractor, capitalizing Israeli company has a 26 per cent stake, same problem with India……”, Drori said. of regulation in order to assure travelers the guarantee of safety. bookings and denied boardings.

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symbolic groundbreaking Matthias Platzeck, Minister President of region is concerned. Every segment of the ceremony took place recently Brandenburg, said that the groundbreaking aerospace industry is represented at the The Importance of Certification through an industry-recognized certification scheme. In some Ato mark the beginning of ceremony at the new exhibition grounds ILA, which addresses the latest trends and instances, ISO 9001 or AS9100 may be sufficient, but for special construction of the new exhibition directly adjacent to Berlin Brandenburg developments in civil and military aviation in the Aerospace Industry for processors there is an additional way to evidence the quality grounds directly adjacent to BER, the Willy Brandt marks the beginning of a and space flight. Nowhere is it possible to of your operation and differentiate your business from your capital’s new airport in Berlin for the Berlin new success story. The decision to choose demonstrate the political significance of SMEs and MSMEs competitors. Airshow ILA 2012. Schönefeld as the venue for ILA was correct. the ILA and our industry better than in the Nadcap is the globally recognized accreditation for special The multi-purpose exhibition grounds, This is where the ILA is at home. The Berlin/ capital’s local region. n the global aerospace industry, there are several factors processes and products. A common question is: what is the bearing the name Berlin Expo Centre Brandenburg region surrounding the The new exhibition grounds will that procurement departments must evaluate when difference between a Nadcap audit and a quality systems audit, Airport, will be built close by the village capital is one of the leading locations of the boast all the ILA’s typical features, Iawarding contracts. Cost is the most obvious one and, in like ISO? of Selchow, and among other events aerospace industry in Germany. Dietmar such as trade fair halls for the world’s the context of the global marketplace, Indian companies can The Nadcap audit has been described as “an inch wide will host the International Aerospace Schrick, Chief Executive of the German aerospace industry, outdoor sites for be competitive in this area. and a mile deep”, meaning that the scope of the audit Exhibition ILA. The main section of the Aerospace Industries Association, said the displaying aircraft of every type and Other considerations may include ability to meet required is very specific and the detail the auditor is looking for grounds will cover approximately 250,000 construction of the new grounds directly size, chalets for catering exclusively timeframe, level of manufacturing competence, adaptability is considerable. As an example, an audit with a general square metres. Hall and chalet areas for adjacent to the capital’s new airport marks to VIPs, and a control tower for the ILA to specific customizations in product deliver and willingness to quality systems focus may include this question regarding aircraft displays covering some 50,000 the beginning of a new era for ILA. fair management. Other features will agree to confidentiality and intellectual property agreements, calibration: square metres, and an outdoor display Following the ILA’s great success after its include numerous facilities providing among others. Does the supplier define the process employed for the area for spectators and access routes move to Berlin in 1992 the new, compact services and catering, a conference Last, but by no means least important, is Quality. In fact, calibration of inspection, measuring and test equipment type, covering 100,000 square metres, will be exhibition grounds will offer an even centre with a large number of meeting this may be the most important factor. This goes beyond unique identification, location, frequency of checks, check built for ILA 2012. better opportunity to expand. This will rooms and a high-tech press centre. competence – it describes an attitude of striving for method, acceptance criteria and the action to be taken when Messeimmobilien Selchow GmbH (MIS) provide an adequate, contemporary 11 to 16 September 2012: ILA 2012 continual improvement, rather than simply being capable results are unsatisfactory? was set up on 10 November 2010 in order response to the challenges which this ILA 2012 will take place from 11 to 16 of producing something. It is also tangibly demonstrable For Nadcap, however, that is too general. In Nadcap audit to manage construction and marketing trade fair presents at national and September. The first three days of the via a review of current and historical process and product checklists, the questions are customized to the field being of the grounds. Messe Berlin GmbH and international level. ILA (11 to 13 September) are reserved testing data. Even if all the other factors are satisfactory, but audited, as shown: ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg (ZAB) each The ILA is one of the world’s three largest exclusively for trade visitors. The weekend Quality is not there, many major aerospace companies will Non-Destructive Testing: Are the FPI dryer ovens calibrated hold a 50 per cent share in the company. trade fairs and air shows representing this open to the general public from 14 to still consider their risk mitigation needs the highest priority. every three months at multiple points across the usable range? MIS will invest 27 million euros in the sector, as well as an important economic 16 September will feature a spectacular So how can companies demonstrate their commitment Heat Treating: Are furnaces used for heat treating development of the new grounds. factor as far as the Berlin/Brandenburg programme of flying displays. to Quality and continual improvement? One of the ways is aluminum parts surveyed at the required tolerance and

A e r o m a g 54 A e r o m a g 55 Industry pushes for rationalising tax Create a database of structure to encourage MRO units eading industry body ASSOCHAM helipads: DGCA has called for streamlining Lvarious taxes to encourage analytical studies. The growth brings aviation maintenance, repair and challenges and safety is the paramount overhaul (MRO) facilities as the country concern of DGCA. DGCA is committed to has huge potential to become a major meet the target of reducing helicopter hub due to low cost benefits, favourable accident rate by 80 per cent by 2016. geographical location and sharp In the review, the helicopter operators upswing in air passenger traffic. expressed their views on a wide ranging The Indian civil aviation sector is issues related to helicopter operations. currently celebrating 100 years of The DGCA summed up the suggestions existence but its share is just one per with concrete action points and assured cent in the USD 50 billion global MRO that periodic review meetings will ensure market. compliance of safety initiatives both on Passenger traffic of scheduled airlines part of regulator and the operators. jumped from 73 million in 2005-06 The action plan is to lay stress on to 142 million in 2010-11, said The analysis of accident and incident data and Associated Chambers of Commerce implementation of recommendations of and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). “By inquiries; training of pilots in handling of a conservative growth rate of ten per Mr. E.K. Bharat Bhushan emergencies with the use of simulators, cent, the throughput is expected to be DGCA introduction of safety management 540 million passengers by 2025,” said its system which has proved successful secretary general D.S. Rawat. in countries where it is practiced and At the same time, cargo traffic is addressing the deteriorated condition expected to touch nine million tonnes of helipads under the control of state from 2.33 million tonnes in the last governments. financial year. India’s scheduled airlines meeting was held recently by The Director General advised RWSI to have 430 planes now. Industry estimates the DGCA, Mr. Bharat Bhushan create a database of all helipads available suggest this figure is likely to go up to Awith all helicopter operators to in the country and their features, obstacles 1,500 by 2025. review the safety and operations issues of etc., and publish the information for use Besides, the general aviation comprises helicopters in the country. by helicopter pilots. He also assured that 700 small planes and 300 helicopters. In The meeting was attended by all separately, the matter will be discussed addition, the business jet fleet has about helicopter operators, along with with AAI to review the special corridors for 140 aircraft. This is expected to grow to representatives of Rotary Wing Society helicopters for operations from Juhu and 2,500 aircraft and 900 helicopters. of India (RWSI) and senior officers from Delhi. “With a fleet size of Indian scheduled Airports Authority of India and DGCA. The Director General suggested that and non-scheduled operators likely Mr. K. Sridharan, President of RWSI, RWSI should start a culture of voluntary to treble in the next one-and-a-half made a comprehensive presentation of reporting of incidents or any significant decade, the need for a strong domestic analysis of the safety record, highlighting occurrences on the RWSI website, which MRO industry gains ground. India’s that barring the four accidents in the will evolve a culture of sharing of critical unique geographical position offers an last two months, the helicopter accident safety information by all helicopter pilots. opportunity to become a global hub record in India has been satisfactory DGCA has also reiterated instructions for international airlines as well,” said Mr and comparable to the rest of the world. that in the event of any emergency faced Rawat. The minimum requirement for The major causes of accidents have by the pilots including bad weather, the an MRO facility is about USD 100 million. been ‘loss of control’ and ‘collision with pilot should immediately land at a suitable Indian rules allow 100 per cent foreign terrain’, among others attributed to bad place and assured that no punitive action direct investment for greenfield MRO weather, human factors, pilot errors and will be taken in case of unscheduled projects through the automatic route. maintenance etc. landing under such circumstances. A full-fledged MRO unit doing all There are 271 helicopters in the He advised all operators to strictly types of checks requires 35,000 to country out of which 209 are engaged in adhere to safety in the election flying and 45,000 engineers. Besides shortage of commercial non-scheduled operations. hilly area flying. Stressing that safety is a skilled personnel, the country faces stiff A large percentage of the helicopter fleet shared responsibility of the operators and competition from neighbouring MRO (71 %) is of single engine helicopters. The the regulator, he signaled that DGCA will hubs like Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia and helicopter industry has a tremendous be extremely strict in ensuring compliance China. growth potential as indicated in recent with regulations.

A e r o m a g 56 A e r o m a g 57 Independent accident DSEi to generate new opportunities investigation he defence and security Equipment International( DSEi) exhibition will be staged at ExCeL in London Tfrom 13-16 September 2011, to demonstrate how committee formed the global defence and security industry is responding to n aircraft accident provides information and evidence of hazards the diverse portfolio of threats facing virtually all nations or deficiencies within the aviation system. A well conducted . DSEi also provides an opportunity for visitors to develop investigation identifies all immediate and underlying systemic international relationships and generate new business A opportunities. causes of an accident and recommends appropriate safety action aimed at avoiding the hazard or eliminating the deficiencies. Organiser Clarion Events is looking to attract delegations from both established and emerging defence and security Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has been conducting spenders. This, together with features such as onsite investigation of accidents and serious incidents and providing support facilities for government procurement agencies and new for the investigation by Court of Inquiry and Committee of Inquiry. technology demonstration zones will,it claims, make DSEi In accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) the most effective platform yet for suppliers around the SARPs and to provide independence of investigation function from the world. regulatory function, it is necessary to create an independent investigation “DSEi is internationally recognized for showcasing the systems/Committee. latest defence and security products and technologies,” With the growth of aviation and corresponding increase in occurrences said DSEi exhibition Director, Duncan Ried. “ The event to be investigated, it is necessary to identify the causes of accident in an is now increasingly perceived to be a valuable meeting independent manner. The creation of Committee shall also conform to ground where representatives of governments, militaries the ideology stated in the State Safety Programme of India. and industry can discuss everything from bilateral To meet the above objective an Accident Investigation Committee agreements to major individual programmes. is hereby established which will work under supervision of Ministry of Civil Aviation. The Committee will constitute of five posts viz. Director of Air Safety (one post), Deputy Director of Air Safety (one post), Assistant Director Air Safety (one post) and Air Safety Officer (two posts). The above First A & D suppliers officers may be identified and notified for working in this Committee from DGCA. On initial notification of accidents and incidents, respective summit in US Regional Air Safety Officer, in whose jurisdiction an accident/ incident n the first event of its kind in the United States, may take place, will forward the details of the accidents and incidents to manufacturers and suppliers from major global the Committee and would conduct necessary preliminary investigation Iaerospace and defence industries will come together and further would take necessary steps to preserve the evidence for in Seattle next year to help create business opportunities facilitation of investigation by the Committee. and share information on the industry growth trends. After classification, minor incidents shall be referred to the DGCA for The Aerospace & Defence Supplier Summit, hosted by enquiry/ investigation while serious incidents and accidents would be BCI Aerospace and supported by The Boeing Company investigated by investigator or Committee of Inquiry or Court of Inquiry and the Washington State Department of Commerce, to be set up or appointed by the Ministry on the recommendation of the is scheduled for March 12-15 at the Seattle Convention Committee. Centre. The Accident Investigation Committee shall have following function Four Boeing business units -- Commercial Airplanes; and responsibilities: Defence, Space & Security; Engineering, Operations & (i) Draw up a formal procedure for the notification of an accident or Technology; and Shared Services Group -- will participate serious incident as per ICAO Annex 13. in the event. (ii) Assist Ministry of Civil Aviation in the formation of Court of Inquiry and Committee of Inquiry in case of major accidents. (iii) Carry out investigation of aircraft accident and serious incident and CIT signs MoU with Airbus nominate teams/groups for the purpose. (iv) Coordinate and provide support for the working of Court of inquiry IT Group Inc. has signed a MoU with Airbus for 50 and Committee of Inquiry. A320neo Family aircraft. (v) Follow-up/monitor the compliance of the recommendation made C The deal was signed at the 49th Le Bourget in the Accident and Serious Incident Investigation Reports. airshow by C. Jeffrey Knittel, President of Transportation (vi) Accident/Incident Reporting in accordance with the ICOA ADREP Finance at CIT and John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer Manual (Doc 9156-AN/900). Customers. This order brings the total number of aircraft (vii) It shall review periodic report of all occurrences for classification and in the Airbus order book for CIT to 241 aircraft, comprising further action required. 195 A320 Family aircraft (including the 50 A320neo aircraft), (viii) It shall maintain a panel of experts in various fields of aviation 39 A330s, and seven A350 XWBs. A long standing Airbus such as accident investigation, airworthiness, meteorology, flight customer and leading leasing company such as CIT has operations, air traffic management with background in investigation placed its first order for the industry’s new benchmark in who may be associated with the investigation process. fuel efficient, single-aisle aircraft, the A320neo.

A e r o m a g 58 A e r o m a g 59 Action Against Fake BrahMos inks pact with Flying Schools irectorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approves the Russian institutions Dflying club, which comply with the conditions stipulated in the Civil orking on the hypersonic bring together best scientific minds to Aviation Requirements Section 7 - Flight version of its supersonic study the hypersonic technology which Crew Standards Training & Licensing Wcruise missile, BrahMos will eventually pave way for the advanced Series ‘D’ Part I. There are 41 flying Aerospace has signed an MoU with BrahMos-II missile system,” they said. training institutes approved by DGCA. Russian aviation institutions to establish Speaking on the occasion, Pillai said, “It The list of such institutes is available a centre of excellence for developing is a remarkable step for BrahMos, NPOM on DGCA’s website. 20 of these Flying technology for high speed aircraft and and MAI to come together and work in Clubs have been audited by DGCA. missiles. this field.” The discrepancies found during the The MoU was inked with the Moscow BrahMos had earlier signed a similar audit include not maintaining proper Aviation Institute (MAI) and NPO MoU with the Indian Institute of Science documents; non-completion of Flying Mashinostroyeniya (NPOM) corporation (IISc) to mark the 10th anniversary of first training Dossiers; improper briefing on the first day of the MAKS, 2011 (Moscow launch of its missile. and de- briefing; non - maintenance air show), BrahMos officials said. The MAI is one of the world-leading of dissemination registers for working The MoU was signed by BrahMos CEO engineering universities dedicated to engineers etc. Corrective action as A Sivathanu Pillai, A N Geraschenko, aerospace technologies and the NPOM is per the nature of Audit Observation is Rector of MAI and Chief of NPOM one of the leading aerospace enterprises taken with the concerned flying training Corporation Alexander Leonov. “It will in Russia. institutes with an aim to improve the system. Further, inspection of facilities at the flying training institutes is carried out by DGCA to ensure compliance of 1st indigenous medium power laid down norms and procedures before renewal of approval. This information was given by the radar inducted in Gujarat Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Vayalar Ravi in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha . he first indigenously-made Medium is being inducted to strengthen air defence Power Radar (MPR) `Arudhra’ was capabilities in the Saurashtra-Kutch region. Bombardier wins USD Trecently inducted at Air Force station Gujarat coastline has several economically in Naliya, Kutch, near Pakistan border, at the important installations and the new radar 126 million firm order hands of Air Chief Marshal P V Naik. will help in extending their security. The IAF Developed by Defence Research and fighters conducted a fly-past synchronised ombardier Aerospace has Development Organisation (DRDO), with the induction of radar by the Chief of announced that a European `Arudhra’ replaces the ageing TRS-2215 and the Air Staff. Bairline, which has requested to PSM-33 radars. The Air Force unit in which new radar remain unidentified at the present time, The radar has a state-of-the-art has been inducted was raised in October has signed a firm order for four Q400 technology, capable of detecting targets at 1966 in Jodhpur, and it moved to Naliya in NextGen high-speed turboprop airliners. ranges greater than 300 kilometres, and it June 1988. At Naliya the unit has played The transaction includes options on an is an important component as IAF plans to a pivotal role in air defence of Saurashtra- additional four Q400 NextGen aircraft. achieve `net centric operations’. The radar Kutch region. Based on the Q400 NextGen aircraft list price, the firm order is valued at approximately $126 million US. Italian Navy gets first NH90 NFH “The technologically advanced Q400 gusta Westland, a Finmeccanica This achievement is also the result of NextGen aircraft is a large, fast, quiet company, has announced that the strong cooperation with the Italian and fuel-efficient regional turboprop,” Athe Italian Navy has taken Ministry of Defence in the development said Gary R. Scott, President, Bombardier delivery of its first NH90 NFH helicopter. of the NFH variant for the Italian Navy. Commercial Aircraft. “Airlines The Italian Navy has ordered a total of 56 The Italian Navy is the second customer everywhere are today enjoying the NH90s (46 NFH and 10 TTH units) which to receive the NH90 in Italy, following the full profit potential of the advanced will replace old helicopters for a variety Italian Army which has a total of 60 NH90 capabilities of this high-performance, of roles including anti-submarine warfare, TTH helicopters on order. Italy is one of high-profit alternative to a jet, and anti-surface warfare and utility. the nations, selecting the NFH variant benefit from the optimised aircraft for The NH90 NFH will give the Italian Navy together with The Netherlands, Norway, short-haul operations in the 70- to 80- a major increase in operational capability France and Belgium. A total of 111 NH90 seat segment.” and mission effectiveness due to its NFH naval helicopters have been ordered outstanding technology and performance. by these nations.

A e r o m a g 60 A e r o m a g 61 Airbus and Rolls-Royce sign 3rd International Seminar on agreement for enhanced A350-1000 he CEOs of Airbus and Rolls-Royce, Tom Enders and John Rishton ,signed the milestone agreement for the joint Tdevelopment of the enhanced Airbus A350-1000 airliner Aviation Safety powered by a higher thrust Rolls-Royce Trent XWB turbofan. The enhanced version of the Trent XWB engine will be fully Aeromag Asia along with Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries (SIATI) is optimised for the largest member of the A350 XWB Family and organizing the 3rd International Seminar on Aviation Safety Hazards and New Technologies Previously will deliver up to 97,000lbs of thrust on takeoff, making it the Bird Strike India Seminar) at New Delhi on 9th & 10th December 2011. Airlines, Airports, Ground most powerful engine ever developed for an Airbus aircraft. handling Agencies, Pilots, Ornithologists, Aviation and Airport security companies, Aircraft and The extra thrust together with an increased aircraft takeoff weight capability of 308 tonnes will enable airlines to fly the Aero Engine manufacturers, are expected to actively participate in this seminar. It will also be a great new A350-1000 approximately 400nm further with a full load of opportunity for overseas organisations specialising in Airport Safety, Aviation and Flight Safety, Fire 350 passengers, or carry around 4.5 extra tonnes of payload at a Safety and Bird control to get associated with this seminar . given range. Moreover, the A350-1000 will save airlines around 25% of fuel consumed and CO2emissions compared with its competitor. This will assure the A350-1000’s position as by far the most efficient aircraft in its category Seminar for  Airlines & Airline Personnel  Airports, Ground handling Lockheed Martin gets BAE Systems India appoints Agencies new Head of Communications  Engine & Aircraft Manufactures USD 47 m contract  Designers, Engine Bird he U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $47 AE Systems has appointed Indu Anand as Head of Insulators,Test Engineers million contract to develop, demonstrate and deliver Communications, for Delhi-based BAE Systems India.  Aviation and Airport security Tautonomous technologies for unmanned air systems BShe joins the Company from Citigroup and replaces Guy in support of in-theater unmanned cargo resupply missions. Douglas who is returning to the UK to take up new responsibilities companies Under the contract, Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace at the company’s UK headquarters.  Ornithologists, Airport Bird will demonstrate intelligent autonomous technologies Indu, who reports jointly to Andrew Gallagher, Chief Executive Control Consultants for unmanned aerial systems using the K-MAX helicopter and Managing Director, BAE Systems India and John Neilson, platform. Director of Communications, International, BAE Systems, will  Airport Operations & Safety The Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate join the Company’s India Management Board. She assumes Personnel is investing in mature technologies that will enhance responsibility for developing awareness of the global defence and  Aircraft and Aero Engine unmanned cargo resupply capabilities by improving security company’s business activities in India which are based autonomous operations, increasing delivery accuracy largely on mutually beneficial partnerships. manufacturers and reducing ground control station operator workload. Commenting on the appointment, Andrew Gallagher, said,  Airline & Helicopter Pilots Prior to being deployed for cargo resupply missions, the “Effective communication, to a wide and varied stakeholder  Civil & Military Aviation Groups technology will be demonstrated in an operationally realistic group, is critical to the successful build-out of BAE Systems India. environment on the unmanned K-MAX. Our strategic objective is to become an integral part of the India’s  University Researchers “Lockheed Martin’s experience, resources and proven domestic defence and security industry and I am confident that  Wildlife Agencies,Wild life K-MAX platform will allow us to meet the Army’s objectives,” Indu’s depth of communications experience from a range of Control Specialists. said Dan Spoor, vice president of Aviation Systems at sectors, including financial services, advertising and IT, will make a Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors. “We are significant contribution.” eager to develop and demonstrate the latest autonomous India is one of BAE Systems’ five home markets, along with technologies using the mature and low-risk K-MAX Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United States and the United How to register platform.” Kingdom. The 6,000 lb power lifter can fly at a higher altitude with The company firmly supports the Government of India’s objective Please send your details with registration fees : For more details - contact: a heavier payload than any other rotary wing unmanned of procuring 70 per cent of defence equipment domestically. The Name: ------Convenor , Aviation Safety Seminar, system. With its four-hook carousel, the unmanned K-MAX Company’s strategy focuses on serving the armed and security Organisation with full address: Aeromag Asia , Aeronautical Society of can also deliver more cargo to more locations in one flight. services as well as the local economy through the creation of high India Building, Suranjandas Road, Since partnering in 2007, Lockheed Martin and Kaman quality jobs, the development of innovative technologies and ------Off Old Madras Road, Bangalore 560075. Aerospace have made significant investments to provide system integration skills, in partnership with India’s world class Designation: ------Tel : 080 25284145 / 080 65952377 a rapid response to an urgent military service need. The companies. Tel: ------team has met all milestones to date and recently began Headquartered in Delhi, BAE Systems India takes pride in its Fax:080 25292440 electromagnetic environmental effects testing at Naval partnerships with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), with which Cell No: ------Cell : + 91 94490 61925 Air Station Patuxent River, Md., as part of the Navy and it has a Bangalore-based engineering services joint venture, Email: [email protected], www.aeromag.in Marine Corps Cargo Unmanned Air Systems program. BAeHAL, since 1993, and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd with whom it joined hands to form Defence Land Systems India in 2009

A e r o m a g 62 A e r o m a g 63 Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) on “Build to Print” and “Build to Spec” basis. BEL has become a US$1 billion company in Indian Ordnance Factories possess the unique distinction of Indian Limelight in London the financial year 2007-08. more than 200 years of experience in Defence production. Under the aegis of its corporate headquarters, the Ordnance Factory Board, the organization is currently engaged in production, A large contingent of Indian Public sector Undertakings to showcase logistics, research and development, and trade in the fi eld of defence. Ordnance Factory Board off ers comprehensive range their products and services at DSEi Exhibition at London Excel from in the areas of land, naval and air defence systems. These include small, medium and large caliber weapons and ammunition, 13-16 September 2011. Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) mortars, explosives, pyrotechnics, armoured and soft skin efence Exhibition Organisation (DEO) (Ministry of Various military and civil upgrades Dhruv was delivered to the vehicles, optical and night vision devices, parachutes and troop Defence, Government of india) Defence Pavilion, Pragati India Army, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard in March 2002, in BEML Soudha 23/1, 4th Main SR Nagar, Bangalore-560 027 comfort items. DMaidan, New Delhi 110 001 (India) Phone: +91-11-2337 the very first year of its production. (India) 1987/1623 Fax: +91-11-2337 0849. E-Mail: offi [email protected] DEO was created as a nodal agency in 1981 as part of the BEML Limited, a Government of India Company, is one of the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence to largest manufactures and suppliers of Earthmoving, Construction promote export potential of Defence Public Sector Undertakings, and Mining equipment in Asia. BEML is one of the premier DRDO and the Ordnance Factory Board. It has over the years engineering companies in India and plays a signifi cant role in Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (Midhani) immensely contributed towards export promotion activities on providing vital inputs to the core sectors of the economy, apart Superalloys Plant PO Kanchanbagh Hyderabad-500 behalf of Ministry of Defence. It is the nodal and coordination Defence Research Development from manufacturing a wide range of tailor-made equipment for 058 (India) Phone: +91-40-2434 0293/1228/3531/0253 agency for the conduct of two major expositions in India, viz; the Indian Defence sector. BEML manufactures a wide range Fax:+91-40-2434, 1250/0764/0214/0371 Aero India and Defexpo India, which have seen exponential Organization (DRDO) of sophisticated hi-tech equipment like bulldozers, rear-dump growth over the years. DEO also coordinates the participation of 447, DRDO BhawanRajaji Marg, New Delhi-110 011 (India) truck, front-end loaders, hydraulic excavators, rope shovels, MIDHANI – an ISO 9002 company – caters to domestic and Indian Defence industries in exhibitions abroad. Aero India has Phone: +91-11-2301 6216 motor graders, walking draglines, pipe layers, tyre handling international customers with modern metallurgical facilities already carved a niche for itself globally as a premier aerospace Fax: +91-11-2379 3008 equipment, aircraft towing tractor, heavy duty transportation and high degree of technical competence for manufacturing exhibition, with eight successful editions organised between trailers, heavy duty trucks and its prime movers, rail coaches its diverse product mix of super alloys, titanium alloys, 1996 and 2011. DRDO is a network of 52 Defence Laboratories in India including day coaches, sleeper coaches, postal vans, track laying Yourspecial purposereliable steels, source electrical resistance for Special and soft magnetic Metals India’s opening up of the defence sector to foreign direct which are deeply engaged in developing critical defence equipment, overhead inspection cars etc. alloys, molybedenum and other alloys meeting the stringent investment, the ongoing modernisation plans of its Armed Forces technologies covering various disciplines like aeronautics, requirements of the strategicand sectorsAlloys like defence, aerospace, and enormous new opportunities in the civil aviation sector have armaments, electronics, combat vehicles engineering system, power and general engineering etc. MIDHANI employs its highly opened innumerable new avenues for investment. instrumentation, missiles, advanced computing and simulation, Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) Critical integrated applications and in the fl exible Power, manufacturing Atomic Energy, facilities Aerospace, to produce Telecommunications, a Defexpo India 2012, the seventh in the series of biennial Land special materials, naval systems, life sciences, information 10-A, SK Bose Road, Kolkata-700 001 (India), Petrochemicalwide varietyand General of special Engineering metals Sectors and alloys call infor variousspecial millmetals forms and alloys which and Naval Systems Exhibition, will be held at Pragati Maidan, systems and agriculture. 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Midhani is also geared to meetThe your investments specific requir meanements. that theseDo use two our long standing Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) experience to solve your problems.new MiddleFor more East detail shipyardss and for will a complete be able list of products 15/1, Cubbon Road Bangalore-560 001 (India) and services get in touch with ourto Marketingbuild and repairDivisi on.ships more efficiently, Phone: +91-80-2286 Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) further enhancing their position within 5197/2286 5860/2286 1258 Fax: +91-80-2286 7140. the global marine industry.” E-Mail: [email protected] International Marketing Division Mishra DhatuAs the Nigam world-leader Limited in shiplift Outer Ring Road, Nagavara Bangalore-560 045 (India) olls-Royce, the global power end of 2012. 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HAL has an impressive product track record – 12 needs of the country’s defence services, is a multi-product, multi- East. 102 metres long and 32 metres wide liftingURL:www.midhani.com of vessels during construction, types of aircraft manufactured with in-house R&D and 14 types technology, multi-unit company. It serves the needs of domestic One order, from Damen Shipyards at a new shipyard, which is being maintenance and repair. Their capacity produced under licence. HAL’s supplies/ services are mainly and foreign customers with the products/ services manufactured Sharjah FZE (DSS) will see a Syncrolift® constructed in King Abdul Aziz port, ranges from 500 to 25,000 tonnes. to Indian Defence Services, Coast Guards and Border Security in its nine state-of-the-art ISO 9001/2 and ISO 14000 certifi designed and installed at Hamriyah Free Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Zamil Offshore The latest orders are for Syncrolift® Forces. 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Commissioning of the Syncrolift® is moved around within the confines of - Tejas – Light combat Aircraft (LCA)- Intermediate Jet Trainer Electronic Components. With the expertise developed over the sixth Rolls-Royce Syncrolift® installed in planned for 2013. a shipyard, increasing efficiency and (IJT)- years, the company also provides turnkey systems solutions and the UAE and it will be operational by the Ravi K, Rolls-Royce, General Manager, reducing drying-docking times.

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