Tejas Light Combat Aircraft to debut at the 2017 Republic Day parade

The Tejas Light Combat Aircraft is the home-grown fighter jet of India and will make its debut at the 2017 Republic Day parade on January 26.
The government has tweaked rules for a ceremonial flypast by waiving off a security condition which states that single engine aircraft were not permitted at the Republic Day flypast over Rajpath where VVIPs and an audience watch the march-past and the flypast.
This is because twin-engine aircraft were better suited for such events and are more likely to survive and be safer for watching crowds if one engine of a plane fails.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 20 January 2017.

The Tejas fighters will take-off from Bikaner in Rajasthan to fly over Delhi for the event. Tejas is the first advanced "fly-by-wire" fighter aircraft which is designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and produced by defence public sector Hindustan Aeronautics.
Incidentally, Tejas have still not got "Final Operational Certificate" in spite of having being initiated more than four decades back and, despite having being flown for more than 3000 hours without major mishap.


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