Bangalore: Sqn Ldr (Retd) Baldev Singh took over as Director Corporate Planning & HAL Marketing today. Before this was flight operations Executive Director and the pilot (fixed wing) HAL Bangalore Complex.
He was involved with the LCA programme from 1990 onwards and was Deputy to the aeronautical Development Agency for this purpose. Over LCA program has worked hard for the development and testing of flight control laws of flight aircraft combat light.
Played flight evaluation of these flight control laws at the real-time Simulator at the Wharton BAE in the United Kingdom, followed by assessment of these flight control laws on F-16 aircraft, Lear Jet and NT-33 in the United States.
Sqn Ldr (Retd) Singh has extensive experience in flight test on five prototype programs and made the first flights of the aircraft HANSA and intermediate trainer. Has an experience of Test flights over 6000 hours on over 55 different types of aircraft. He is a qualified flying instructor and holds a diploma in aviation flight safety by Naval Post Graduate College, Monterey Bay, California, USA.
He joined the National Defence Academy in 1970 and graduated from the Academy in December 1972 and was commissioned into the Indian Air Force in June 1973 as a fighter pilot.
After the in-flight operational on Hunter, Mig-21 and Mig-23 aircraft, qualified as a flight instructor in July 1983 and was sent to Air Force Academy in Hyderabad for instructional duties on aircraft flying Kiran. In 1984 he made his course of experimental test pilots and was deputed to HAL in 1986. He retired from the Indian air force in 1989 and joined HAL.
Last updated (Wednesday, August 17, 2011)
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