{"id":89387,"date":"2020-01-06T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T09:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T09:49:01","slug":"national-aerospace-laboratory-wants-govt-push-for-saras-mk2-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-aerospace-laboratory-wants-govt-push-for-saras-mk2-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"National Aerospace Laboratory wants govt. push for Saras Mk2 takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>National Aerospace Laboratory has said that the Government of India should buy at least 50-60 Saras Mk2 aircraft to make production commercially viable.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Saras Mk2 aircraft:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Saras Mk2 is the first Indian multi-purpose civilian aircraft.It is designed by the National Aerospace Laboratories(NAL).&nbsp;<\/li><li>The project was started in 1991 and the first prototype was introduced in 2004.However,the project was scrapped after the aircraft crashed in 2009.<\/li><li>In 2017,the project was again revived.The upgraded SARAS PT1N completed its test flight in 2018.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of the aircraft:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The aircraft falls in the light transport aircraft category.It is capable of executing both day and night missions.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It can be used for transporting civilians, freight and in remote sensing exercises.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It can take off and land from semi-prepared airfields and even on grass runways.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The aircraft has been designed to travel at 425 km\/h and it has a maximum continuous flight time of around five hours.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:National Aerospace Laboratory has said that the Government of India should buy at least 50-60 Saras Mk2 aircraft to make production commercially viable. Facts: About Saras Mk2 aircraft: Saras Mk2 is the first Indian multi-purpose civilian aircraft.It is designed by the National Aerospace Laboratories(NAL).&nbsp; The project was started in 1991 and the first prototype was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-aerospace-laboratory-wants-govt-push-for-saras-mk2-takeoff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Aerospace Laboratory wants govt. push for Saras Mk2 takeoff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6831],"class_list":["post-89387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-saras-mk2-aircraft","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816552},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}