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Saras Aircraft, NAL, India

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Uploaded by on Feb 23, 2008

Saras is the first civilian aircraft designed and developed in India by National Aerospace Laboratories(NAL). This 14 seater aircraft is named after the Indian Crane "Saras". This is the video of maiden flight of second prototype which took place in Banglaore on April 18, 2007. It is powered by two Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboProp engines.

Regards to NAL and PR team for this video

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  • Great upload well done India.

  • You have no brain. Read about Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan's economic history. You will see that before you can innovate you must develop economies of scale. The Japanese were accused of being copiers until1970s. But don't worry you Pakistanis can always beg money from the U.S or work as coolies in China. After all your ancestors have been slaves for thousands of years. You criticize China but your country is dependent on China. Don't worry in 5-10 years China will give coolie visas to Pakistan.

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  • ATTENTION :

    Soon Indian navy's existing Dornier planes will be replaced by NAL SARAS !!

  • @simpollux Never heard of sarcasm, right...? I still do maintain though that this plane is a poor man's Learjet from a country that has no idea of "intellectual property". Period.

  • @szybkilopez566

    That 'vulgar thing' is an instrumentation probe- something you don't know anything about, eh?

    Stick your tongue out- that's Instrumentation 101, for starts.

  • Once these technical issues are resolved and a stable airframe comes out, I'd just love to see a Saras Business aircraft version. With its pusher propeller configuration, the Saras just looks so interesting!

  • @navratna1 You are mixing up military and civilian technologies. In the whole world, only America and France make decent civilian aircraft. Brazilian Embraer makes some half decent small planes. That's about it.

    India has an advanced space programme that countries like UK, Germany, etc cannot even dream of coming close to.

  • @Steven4466 Do not despair Britain. One day you will be able to build your own space programme. You will even be able to have your own rockets and spaceprobes and will be able to even send things to the moon. India did not despair and neither should you.

  • i really regret for those people who comments badly about this achievement... all the people like you, who comments badly, studying here in India in iit's and top universities and going to abroad for your own comfort and money... then you are expecting (India), the name alone to develop modern and most advanced aircrafts! shameless people... !!!

  • Guys hurry up....u r tooooo slow....  rest of the world is too fast...new technologies getting old very next day. THia saras and LCA i heard when I was child... now very soon I will have my own children.

  • It really has ducky look ... quak quak .... very cute looking machine :)

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