Top aerospace news round up can be the other title of this post but the one i choose capture the theme of all the news that had happened in Indian aerospace industry last week. The biggest news that happened last week has to be the International Conference on Aerospace Science and Technology (INCAST) that was held in Bangalore from June 2 to June 28, 2008.The conference,organized as a part of Golden Jubilee celebration of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore had the main objective to provide a platform for International R&D organization, Academia and Industrial agencies to present their latest achievements and explore the possibility of deriving synergies. This conference also presented the current aerospace activity in the country apart from showcasing the Aerospace Technologies of NAL.The conference provided a forum for discussion for further advancement of aerospace science & technology in the country to cater to the future requirements of national aerospace programs.
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, Former President of India. Prof R Narasimha, Chairman, Engineering Mechanics Unit, JNCAR, and Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space were the main attraction of the conference.
Many important announcements were made during the conference. One among them was related to saras. The third weight optimized version of saras will fly in the next year. Since G Madhavan Nair was present, an announcement on chandrayaan launch was also made. Apart from this ISRO chief also made a call to the aeronautics industry of India to wake up and capture the national market. This was one of the significant remark. It hints that in future private-public partnership is going to increase and aerospace engineers of India will have good demand.
Opening up of the Indian economy and globalisation are taking a heavy toll on NAL, as director A.R. Upadhya said "“We are hit hard by talent crunch. Many of our well-trained scientists and technologists are either resigning or taking voluntary retirement in droves to join the private sector or multi-nationals in pursuit of professional advancement with hefty pay packets"
Well that was the high lights of the aerospace conference held by NAL. Apart from this there were also a news of NAL building India's fastest supercomputer.
So you see, NAL and the conference dominated the news. But within all this news there was one good news for all avionics engineer out there, as French defence and electronics major Thales announced to double its Indian business from 250 million to 500 million euros in the next five years.
Taking of France, it is also keenly interested in making inroads in Indian aerospace industry as there are chances that India and France may soon join to make surface to air missiles just in lines of Indo-russian Brahmos supersonic cruise missile. Good news for Indian aeronautical engineers, so folks get those french classes, who knows.
Have you ever noticed that all the aerospace activities of India are all concentrated in Bangalore, but this might change in future as there are reports and signs that chandigarh is also betting big on aerospace. An IDS infotech is a new company to watch.
And for all the aviation buffs and maintainance streams guys, rejoice as Lufthansa Technik, the world’ s largest maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company, will set up a facility in the country, in a joint venture with the Hyderabad-based GMR group
So this were the top news of the last week, some of themn are significant and will surely affect the aerospace professional. But overall the aerospace outlook for India is positive. So buck up aeronautical engineers, lot of work coming your way. Read more news at indianaeronews blog.
