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HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LTD. (HAL)
HAL certainly needs no introduction. Originally established in 1940 as a private company to cater to the overhaul, repair, and maintanance of aircraft deployed for WW-II,over the past 60 years, HAL has manufactured more than 5000 aircraft including 11 indigenous types and spread it's wings over everthing from Design, development and manufacture to overhaul and maintanace. HAL's sales and profit for the year 2001-2002 stand at Indian Rs.2775 crore and Rs.375 crore respectively, with a profit to sales ratio of approximately 11 percent. Some of HAL's international undertakings include
- The supply of 10 aircraft shipsets of kits for the cargo-conversion of the IDF/AF's Boeing 737-300 aircraft. The contract is valued at US $3.8 million and also envisages placement of additional orders with HAL for not less than 30 percent of the future orders obtained by IAI.
- A trial order from EADS for the CAD modelling of the main deck cargo door for the A300-600 and flap carriage ribs for the A340-600, valued at around US $137,800.
- The manufacture of pylon fairings for the PANAVIA Tornado.
- The manufacture of Airbus A-320 Passenger doors,Boeing 767 Bulk Cargo doors and Boeing 757 owx doors. The $50 million contract for the supply of A-320 doors includes 600 shipsets.
- The manufacture of the Boeing 777's main landing gear uplock box assembly.
- The supply of structural and machined components for the Dassault Falcon-7X.
- The design and manufacture of Jetstream-61 aircraft tailplanes.
- Maintanance, support and spares to Nepal,Bhutan,South Korea, Mauritius, BAe and Dornier.
- The export of Ring forgings valued at US $5 million,to Rolls-Royce for use in civil aero engines.
- The export of rolled ring forgings and precision blade forgings valued at IN Rs 30 million/year, to Snecma Moteurs.
- The export of Su-30 sub-assemblies to Russia. This includes an order from IAPO for the supply of 18 shipsets of fins, stabilizers and canard surfaces, valued at around US $10 million.
- Exports to IAI worth US $9 million.
The medium transport aircraft (MTA) is the intended replacement for the IAF's large fleet of An-32 and HAL/Hs-748 freighters. To be developed in partnership with Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Corporation, Ilyushin Aviation complex and Rosoboronexport, it will feature a digital FBW flight control system, a glass cockpit, integrated avionics and will be able to operate from semi-prepared runways. There will be a passenger version with a 100-120 seat capacity and a cargo version with a 15-20 tonne cargo capacity. With concurrent series production, development is expected to take six years with the delivery of the first aircraft to customers in the seventh year. The pictured designs show a clear evolution from the Aero-India 2001 model exhibits.
One of the higher profile exhibits and perhaps the most significant,was the full scale mockup of HAL's latest project - the Light combat helicopter (LCH), the gunship variant of the Dhruv. IAF ACM S Krishnaswamy, committed to grant Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) to HAL for designing and developing the Light Combat Helicopter in the next 24 months. HAL has now promised to deliver the LCH by the the next Aero-India show in 2005. The mockup featured functional glass cockpits and details such as the RWR aerials, MAWS, Nag ATGMS and the conformal countermeasures launcher. One of the prime roles of the helicopter would be COIN missions at extremely high altitudes.
Models of the all the Dhruv variants and the recently tested HJT-36 Sitara Intermediate Jet trainer which was developed in a record time of less than 3.6 years and covered no less than a test flight every three days since it's first flight. The Dhruv will be marketed by IAI for the international market. Under contract, HAL and IAI will develop and integrate a centralised avionics package for the export version and the latter will participate in ground and flight tests of the ALH along with the HAL team. Following the delivery of the Coast-Guard, Army, Navy and Airforce versions of the Dhruv, HAL have bagged the first civilian order from Azal India Helicopter Pvt.ltd, Mumbai. DGCA certification was recently awarded. Israeli avionics will be optional for export customers and HAL also offer their own package.
This is a lower end Mig-21 simulator for possible use in training Mig-21UPG pilots. It features a simplistic single CRT screen cockpit setup that can be used to simulate a variety of cockpit versions.
NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES (NAL)
With the development and delivery of the Hansa, an all composite light trainer/sports aircraft and the rollout of the first prototype of the Saras, a 14 seat twin turboprop transport, on 4 Feb.2003, NAL is quickly becoming a major player in the aerospace industry. NAL has contributed extensively to the LCA project with the development of control laws, design and testing of composite components as well as the use of wind tunnel facilities.
Concept models of the Saras and Hansa 2/Hansa 3. The Hansa-3 is estimated to cost a mere US $100,000. The Saras's first flight is scheduled to take place in June 2003 while the Hansa has been delivered to customers. The IAF has expressed interest for the use of six of these aircraft as ab-initio trainers for transport pilots. The aircraft is powered by P&W; Canada PT6A-66 turboprop engines flat rated at 850 shp, driving 2.16 m six bladed Hartzell push propellers. Saras will be operated from LCN-10 semi-prepared runways and will require a take off run of 665 m plus a landing run of 671 m.
The interior of the Saras. The pressurized cabin has a headroom of 5 ft 7.5 in. The cockpit is to feature two Belgian BARCO 8 inch x 6 inch AMLCDs but all engine instruments will be of conventional dial-pointer type.
MISCELLANEOUS
Ordinance factory board's Gasha gun, a possible candidate for the LCA's gun armament. The LCA at present, uses the conformally mounted GsH-23L twin pack.
Various locally developed NBC and Fire protection equipment. The model shows an NBC shelter with a decontamination unit. It can accomodate 13 occupants for 9 days.
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