On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 15:20 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On 24 August 2014 1:22:45 pm Jahnavi Phalkey > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Indeed, Suresh. A Kurt Tank design but even more than that, the > history of > > its making is incredibly interesting.
Is there a fellow military aviation enthusiast in our midst? Double welcome if so. I was fortunate to get the entire official history of this aircraft in a book - the last copy that was available. But there is much on the net. A remore connection with a precursor of SilkList - that is the BBS CiX - which was started by the late Atul Chitnis in Bangalore. In Delhi at that time another BBS was run by Kishore Bhargava, a friend of Chitnis (and possibly Udhay?) Kishore Bhargava's father Kapil Bhargava was one of the test pilots who flew the HF 24 Here is one story by Kapil Bhargava http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1950s/Kapil-Glider.html Cancelling this aircraft program was one of the worst mistakes made by India's aviation planners - a mistake that India has still not recovered from shiv
