26 April, 2007 (FIDSNS)
The first aircraft in the Limited Series Production of Tejas, indigenous Light Combat Aircraft, (LSP-1), has made its successful maiden flight at HAL airport in Bangalore on 25 April,2007.
The flight lasted 47 minutes, during which all the systems of the aircraft functioned “perfectly well”, mentions a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Press release.
Flown by Group Captain A P Singh, the aircraft covered an altitude upto 11 km and supersonic speed of 1.1 Mach,making it first time in the country that any aircraft has gone supersonic in the very first flight.
The flight was chased by another Tejas Technology Demnstrator-2 (TD-2). TD-2 has so far made 255 flawless flights.
