{"id":307173,"date":"2018-12-18T05:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307173"},"modified":"2018-12-18T05:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:51:41","slug":"indias-first-military-flight-using-blended-bio-jet-fuel-flown-by-iaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-first-military-flight-using-blended-bio-jet-fuel-flown-by-iaf\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first military flight using Blended Bio-Jet Fuel Flown by IAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-first-military-flight-using-blended-bio-jet-fuel-flown-by-iaf\/an32\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307174\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307174 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/an32-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/an32-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/an32-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/an32-696x382.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/an32-765x420.jpg 765w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/an32.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a>Experimental Test Pilots and Test Engineer from IAF\u2019s premier testing establishment ASTE, flew India\u2019s first military flight using blended bio-jet fuel on the An-32 transport aircraft on Monday.The project is a combined effort of IAF, DRDO, Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On 27 July 2018, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, Chief of Air Staff had announced IAF\u2019s intention to promote biojet fuels. Addressing the CII-SIDM seminar on promoting indigenised technologies, the CAS had stated that IAF intended to fly the An-32 with 10% biojet fuel on 26 Jan 2019 Republic Day flypast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Air Force carried out extensive engine tests on the ground. This is now followed by flight trials using 10% biojet blended ATF. This fuel is made from Jatropha oil sourced from Chattisgarh Biodiesel Development Authority (CBDA) and then processed at CSIR-IIP, Dehradun.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experimental Test Pilots and Test Engineer from IAF\u2019s premier testing establishment ASTE, flew India\u2019s first military flight using blended bio-jet fuel on the An-32 transport aircraft on Monday.The project is a combined effort of IAF, DRDO, Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum. On 27 July 2018, Air Chief Marshal BS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307176,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307173\/revisions\/307176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}