06-06-2010, 07:37 PM
Krishna descended steeply, a parachute flowering as his aircraft touched down; a split second behind him, the chase aircraft, another Tejas flown by Group Captain R R Tyagi, "peeled off" into the sky with a roar.
That was the "chase aircraft", which had watched and photographed every moment of Krishna's flight. In those 40 minutes, both fighters had climbed to 36,000 feet; broken the sound barrier; turned and twisted sharply; and checked several parameters as part of the Tejas flight test programme. http://news.in.msn.com/internalsecurity/...066&page=4
That was the "chase aircraft", which had watched and photographed every moment of Krishna's flight. In those 40 minutes, both fighters had climbed to 36,000 feet; broken the sound barrier; turned and twisted sharply; and checked several parameters as part of the Tejas flight test programme. http://news.in.msn.com/internalsecurity/...066&page=4