By M A Athul
On the
occasion of 34th Flight Test Course, Marshal of the Indian Air
Force Arjan Singh exhorted young officers to the strive for excellence and
to contribute to developments in
aviation. He was presenting graduation certificated to 9 Test Pilots and 6 Test
Engineers of the 34th Flight Test Course in Aircraft System Testing
Establishment (ASTE) in Bangalore. He pointed out that India was on the verge
of achieving indigenization in the aviation field.
On arrival
at the ASTE was accorded with a guard of honor. He was conducted around the
Establishment by Air vice Marshal Raghunath Nambiar, Commandant ASTE. The
Marshal also interacted with ASTE personnel and visited the Flight Test
Memorial, where he paid homage to those who had made the supreme sacrifice
while performing Flight Testing duties.
Suranjan Das
Trophy for the best all-round student Test Pilot was awarded to Squadron Leader
K U Rao , while Chief of Air Staff Trophy” for the best student Test Pilot in
Flight Evaluation was awarded to Squadron Leader D Gupta. The “Hanumanth Singhji”
Sword for the best all-round student Flight Test Engineer was awarded to Wing
Commander Gulshan Kumar and the “Dunlop Trophy” for the best student in Flight
Evaluation was awarded to Wing Commander Karthikeyan. (Edited from press release)
(The writer is a first year PG student of Defence and Strategic Studies with Madras University currently on a 2-months’ internship with Tarmak007. His write-ups need not be news-breaks and in-depth in nature; hence should be seen as an ab initio effort by a budding defence journalist. The views expressed by Athul need not be that of Tarmak007.)
