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LCA NP-2 inches closer to first flight
Published January 7, 2015 | By admin
SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK ( INN)

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Second home grown Single seater carrier-borne fighter aircraft NP-2 (naval prototype) has been cleared to carry out Taxi trials and is inching towards its first flight said sources close to idrw.org . NP-2 has cleared all ground testing and will be carrying out series of Slow Speed and High speed trials before first flight .

NP-1 which is a trainer variant carried out first flight flew on April 2012 for 22 minutes after taking off from HAL airport in Bangalore. NP-1 recently cleared test flights from STOBAR (short take off but arrested recovery) aircraft facility in Ins Hansa Naval base in Goa .

ADA will also be developing two more prototypes (NP-3 and 4) which will help in testing of Naval LCA variant , while aircraft which will serve Navy from aircraft carrier will be Naval LCA MK-2 which will be powered by more powerful General Electric F414-GE-INS6 engine with 98 kN of thrust and refined aerodynamics.

LCA NP-2 inches closer to first flight | idrw.org
 
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So navy is going to be using LCA mk2 version.!!
 
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Yay! Talk about first flight and taxi trials and attach a flying plane picture. I joke, I joke....
 
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