- Wednesday, April 24, 2024
By: Radhakrishna N S
In a significant achievement and a major step towards final operational clearance (FOC) of India’s Light Combat Aircraft, LCA Tejas, the mid-air refuelling of ‘wet contact’ trial for LCA Tejas MK-1 was successfully carried out on Monday (10) from an Indian Air Force (IAF) base. The trial was a part of the Air-to-Air refuelling flight tests conducted by IAF. Before this ‘wet contact’ trial, the ‘dry contact trials’ were successfully conducted last week where the drogue (basket) extended from the IAF tanker aircraft by a fuel hose, was tracked and plugged into using the aircraft refuelling probe without taking fuel.…
You do not have access to this content. You need to subscribe.
