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http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/11/stories/2010051151600300.htm
PANAJI: The first steel-cutting ceremony to mark the commencement of structural work on the state-of-the-art Shore-Based Test Facility (SBTF) was held at the Goa Shipyard Ltd., a Goa-based public sector shipyard, on Monday.
The proposed SBTF, when operational, will provide India a facility to test developmental aircraft before they are cleared for use on board aircraft carriers.
It will also provide the Indian Navy with a facility to hone the skills of its pilots before they are deployed on board.
Cmde A.S. Baghel, Chief Staff Officer (Air), Goa Naval Area, did the honours in presence of Vineet Bakhshi, Chairman and Managing Director of GSL.
The SBTF, being set up at the Naval Air Station, Goa, by the Aeronautical Development Agency, is a unique testing facility in the South Asian region and the third in the world, said an official spokesman of GSL. The facility will be used to simulate an aircraft carrier for full-fledged flight testing of ship-borne attack aircraft as well as for training of pilots.
The test facility will have various systems for controlled take-off and landing as is done on aircraft carriers.
The GSL has been appointed main coordinator for this project and will handle work relating to steel procurement, structural fabrication, provisioning of equipment of Indian scope of supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the facility. GSL will also carry out the system integration while the civil work is being taken up by the DRDO's R&DE (E), Pune.
The project is scheduled to be commissioned in 2012.
PANAJI: The first steel-cutting ceremony to mark the commencement of structural work on the state-of-the-art Shore-Based Test Facility (SBTF) was held at the Goa Shipyard Ltd., a Goa-based public sector shipyard, on Monday.
The proposed SBTF, when operational, will provide India a facility to test developmental aircraft before they are cleared for use on board aircraft carriers.
It will also provide the Indian Navy with a facility to hone the skills of its pilots before they are deployed on board.
Cmde A.S. Baghel, Chief Staff Officer (Air), Goa Naval Area, did the honours in presence of Vineet Bakhshi, Chairman and Managing Director of GSL.
The SBTF, being set up at the Naval Air Station, Goa, by the Aeronautical Development Agency, is a unique testing facility in the South Asian region and the third in the world, said an official spokesman of GSL. The facility will be used to simulate an aircraft carrier for full-fledged flight testing of ship-borne attack aircraft as well as for training of pilots.
The test facility will have various systems for controlled take-off and landing as is done on aircraft carriers.
The GSL has been appointed main coordinator for this project and will handle work relating to steel procurement, structural fabrication, provisioning of equipment of Indian scope of supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the facility. GSL will also carry out the system integration while the civil work is being taken up by the DRDO's R&DE (E), Pune.
The project is scheduled to be commissioned in 2012.
