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The Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas LSP8, has successfully completed the Wet (actual) engagement on Monday by transferring 1900 Kg fuel from IAF IL78 mid-air refuelling tanker.
The refuelling happened at an altitude of 20000 feet. The aircraft speed was 270 knots and all the internal tanks and drop tanks were refuelled.
A few days ago, the successful dry docking of aerial refuelling probe with mother tanker was carried out on September 4 and 6, 2018,
With this, India joins the elite group of countries who have developed the Air-to-Air (AAR) system for military class of aircraft, said R Madhavan, CMD, HAL.
Piloted by Wg Cdr Siddarth Singh of NFTC, this significant milestone was achieved today at 9.30 hours with designers from HAL and ADA closely monitoring the system parameters from the ground station at Gwalior.
The performance of aircraft systems (mainly fuel & flight controls systems) during the trial was in-line with the design requirements and was closely matching with the results of extensive ground tests of air-to-air refuelling system.
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