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  The Safran/RR GTRE Collaboration                                           Prof. Prodyut Das 17-10-2025 The proposed collaboration with foreign companies for the development of a 120 kN jet engine is not recommended. The objections are: 1.       We are trying to buy with money what can only be acquired by dedication. 2.       The requirement itself is debatable and it has NOT been debated sufficiently. The designated aircraft’s specifications conform to fashion not task. A task-based specification will not justify super cruise and hence the 120 kN engine. 3.       The proposal for the collaboration comes from people “with interests but without liabilities”. All our failed projects fall into this...

  The Mig 21 – a tribute to its engineering                         Prof. Prodyut Das   05 October 2025   The STC or the State Trading Corporation - one of whose activities was to collect cars left behind by “posted out “diplomats from the Embassies and organize their auction- paid their GETs a basic pay of Rs.950. We, the PGETs of the Design Bureau of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) were paid a basic of Rs.550. In the Orwellian society of Socialist India, all were equal but PGETs in Aircraft design were less equal, than the Raisina nephews working as GETs for STC. However, if you were crazy enough about aeroplanes the HAL job, though barely affordable to keep, had its compensations. You could slip off your stool any time and walk through the hangars and workshop and it was like walking through the caves of Ali Baba. One saw unicorns (note 1) and t...