Light Combat Aircraft Makes Successful Maiden Flight

Indian Government News, The first aircraft in the Limited Series Production of Tejas, indigenous Light Combat Aircraft, (LSP-1), has made its successful maiden flight at HAL airport in Bangalore. LSP-1 would be the first aircraft to roll out of HAL production hangar, marking the beginning of series production of Tejas for induction into the Air Force. 
 
The flight in Bangalore on Wednesday lasted for 47 minutes, during which all the systems of the aircraft functioned “perfectly well”, Defence Research and Development Organisation said. 
 
Flown by Group Captain A P Singh, the aircraft has covered an altitude up to 11 km at a supersonic speed of 1.1 Mach, DRDO said in its release. 
 
This is the first time in the country that any aircraft has gone supersonic in the very first flight, it said. 
 
As is customary for the first flight of a prototype, the flight was chased by another Tejas (TD-2).