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Director
General of Civil Aviation
The Director General of Civil
Aviation is a statutory authority
responsible for laying down,
implementation and monitoring of
standards regarding:
Airworthiness of Aircraft;
Safety and Operations of Aircraft;
Flight Crew Standards & Training;
Air Transport Operations.
Licensing of Flight Crew, Aircraft
Engineers and Civil Aerodromes.
Certification of Air Operators.
Investigation of incidents and minor
accidents and implementation of safety
measures.
Formulation of Aviation Legislation.
Research and Development activities in
the field of Civil Aviation.
Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
has over six decades of experience in
design, development, overhaul, repair and
maintenance of civil & military
aircraft. HAL, to date has manufactured
over 3400 aircraft including helicopters,
repaired and overhauled almost double the
number, apart from servicing 23,000
engines.
HAL is in partnership with renowned
Aerospace Leaders of the world. With this
global partnership, and by its own
R&D, HAL has established a reputation
for manufacture & supply of
sophisticated aerospace equipment to
Indian & Overseas customers.
HAL’s fourteen manufacturing and
maintenance units & nine R&D
centres, are supported by highly trained
technical manpower.
The latest achievements is the Advanced
Light Helicopter designed and developed
at HAL futuristic in concept and among
the best in the world in the 4-5 tonne
class.
Taneja
Aerospace & Aviation Ltd.
NAL
- National Aerospace Laboratories
National
Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a
constituent of Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR),
is India's pre-eminent civil R&D
establishment in aeronautics and allied
disciplines. NAL was set up at Delhi in
1959 and moved to Bangalore in 1960.
NAL's
primary objective, as articulated in its
new Vision
Statement,
is the "development of aerospace
technologies with a strong science
content and with a view to their
practical application to the design and
construction of flight vehicles".
NAL is also required "to use its
aerospace technologybase for general
industrial applications".
NAL's
core competence spans practically the
whole aerospace spectrum. Over the years,
NAL has made very significant
contributions to all Indian aerospace
programmes; often even setting the
national agenda for such programmes.
During the last decade NAL has
spearheaded the effort to design and
develop small
and medium-sized
aircraft for the civil sector.
NAL's
real strength lies in its vast reservoir
of expertise and facilities created over
the years. With this imposing
infrastructure, NAL has been very
successful in obtaining a large number of
R&D contracts for testing and
subsystem development for various
national programmes as well as industries
all over India and abroad. In the past
decade (1987-97), NAL undertook
approximately 400 projects worth about 60
million US$. Over the last few years, NAL
has earned more than 60% of its budget
through external resources, a unique
achievement for CSIR laboratories.
NAL
is well-equipped with modern and
sophisticated facilities
which include national facilities like
the Nilakantan
Wind Tunnel Centre
and the computerised fullscale
fatigue test facility.
The various facilities and
multi-disciplinary expertise, developed
primarily for the aerospace sector, are
also utilised in other sectors involving
high technology. NAL is recognised as a
centre for failure analysis and extends
its support in investigating failures and
accidents both for aerospace and other
general facilities. Other major
facilities at NAL include: the acoustic
test facility,
turbomachinery and combustion research
facilities, Composite
Structures Laboratory,
black
box readout systems
and the FRP fabrication facility.
NAL
has a staff
strength of
about 1300 with about 350 full-fledged
R&D professionals (over 100 Ph.D.'s).
It is thus in a unique position to offer
R&D support, expertise and services
to both aerospace and non-aerospace
sectors of industry. Some major recent
contracts include: development of carbon
fibre composite wings for India's Light
Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, design,
development and fabrication of a
fully-automated autoclave for Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL), development of
co-cured fin and rudder for LCA and a
shake test facility for HAL's Advanced
Light Helicopter (ALH).
Spin-off
technologies
from aerospace R&D activities have
significantly contributed to the
non-aerospace sector everywhere in the
world. Conscious of this aspect, NAL has
made special efforts to identify those
developments which could result as
off-shoots from the main R&D
programmes. About 30 such technologies
developed over the last decade have been
successfully licensed and transferred to
54 industries against a premier value of
100,000 US$. The cumulative production
value of these technologies is over 10
million US$.
NAL's
models for business development
activities include inhouse projects
leading to commercialisation, sponsored
projects, industry-lab linkages,
multi-agency collaborative projects and
international contracts. During the last
24 months, NAL has obtained 12 contracts
worth over 25 million US$. NAL has also
undertaken about a dozen international
projects for Boeing, USA; Civil Aviation
Authority, UK; IBM Corporation, USA;
Hitachi, Japan etc.
NAL
has therefore come a long way from its modest
beginnings
in 1959-60 when it was housed for some
time in the stables of a former
Maharaja's palace in Bangalore. This
development has been possible because of
the vision and commitment of its former
Directors:
Dr P Nilakantan, Dr S R Valluri, Prof R
Narasimha and Dr K N Raju.
Indian
Airlines
In
1953, a new dream took shape - to airlink
the vast South Asian subcontinent by a
single, modern, and efficient airline.
The Airline was Indian Airlines. Today,
Indian Airlines, together with its fully
owned subsidiary Alliance Air, is one of
the largest regional airline systems in
Asia with a fleet of 56 aircrafts, 11
wide bodied Airbus A300s, 30 Fly-by-wire
Airbus A320s, 11 Boeing 737s and 3
Dornier D-228 aircrafts.
Indian
Airline's has been setting the standards
for civil aviation in India since its
inception in 1953. It has many firsts to
its credit, including introduction of the
wide-bodied A300 aircraft on the domestic
network, the fly-by-wire A320, Domestic
Shuttle Service and Walk-in Flights. Its
unique orange and white logo emblazoned
on the tails of all its aircraft is
perhaps the most widely recognised Indian
brand symbol that has over the
years become synonmous with
service, efficiency and reliability.
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