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You’re reading it here first: The Central government wants to deploy drones unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver COVID19 vaccines to underserved regions in the country. A group of government institutions, on being nudged by the country’s Principal Scientific Advisor’s (PSA) office, has come up with a proposal for a pilot project wherein drones will be used to make deliveries to public health centres and camps on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
The pilot project’s success could see its expansion to hilly and forested regions in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Assam, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Laboratories operated by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) across the country will be used launch pads for the drones, notes the proposal document available on the PSA’s website. The organisations responsible for the pilot are CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CISO), CSIR- Natio
Oxygen enrichment device for use in homes, remote locations developed by CMERI
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Last Updated: Apr 08, 2021, 04:09 PM IST
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This unit may help reduce the demand for oxygen cylinders and ventilators and due to the rise in air pollution its demand is supposed to grow very rapidly as it is also useful for maintaining proper oxygen level for an optimum healthy environment.
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An oxygen enrichment unit is a device, which concentrates the oxygen from the air around by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched air. (Representative Image)
An oxygen enrichment device that can be used in homes, high altitude terrain, remote locations and also prove more effective for treating COVID-19 patients has been developed by the Central Mechanical Research Institute in West Bengal s Durgapur, the CSIR said on Thursday. Oxygen enrichment unit works on the principle of Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) and utilises zeolite columns to selectively remove nitr
Mumbai pilot helped NAL roll out trainer aircraft
Mumbai pilot helped NAL roll out trainer aircraft
ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Apr 4, 2021, 06:00 IST
Mihir Bhagvati, test pilot, made several suggestions to improve the indigenously manufactured new generation two-seater trainer
aircraft
The new generation Hansa aircraft – the indigenously manufactured trainer aircraft of
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) launched on March 31 – was developed with a lot of inputs from a Mumbai-based pilot, Mihir Bhagvati (inset), who heads the
Bombay Flying Club. The aircraft, HANSA-NG, will take its first flight by April-end in Bengaluru. The
NAL has received more than 30 letters of intent, and HANSA-NG is much cheaper than Cessna 172
New Gen HANSA to train new pilots
New Gen HANSA to train new pilots
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Apr 1, 2021, 06:00 IST
aircraft to instruct rookie pilots as the
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) on Wednesday rolled out the
HANSA – New Generation (NG) aircraft. The HANSA NG equipped with IFR-compliant avionics with smart multi-functional displays, a
glass cockpit and a bubble canopy design is a successor to the HANSA aircraft that was developed two decades ago by NAL. “In 2016, we did a market survey from a professional agency for six months and found the potential of the growing civil aviation market and that there is a requirement for 100-120 aircraft,”
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