CSIR- National Aerospace Laboratories: A leading Indian aerospace R&D institution

摘要

National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR}, India is the only civilian aerospace R&D laboratory in the country. Started on June 1, 1959 in Delhi, it moved to Bangalore in 1960 and later on to its own two campuses (Kodihalli and Belur) in Bangalore. CSIR-NAL is a high-technology institution focusing on various disciplines in aerospace and has a mandate to develop aerospace technologies with strong science content, design and build small and medium size civil aircraft prototypes, and support all national aerospace programmes. It has many advanced test facilities recognised as National Facilities. These are not only best in the country but are also comparable to other similar facilities in the world. NAL's committed efforts over the last five decades have resulted in achieving expertise and core competencies in most of the disciplines of aeronautics, the areas of core competence include; computational fluid dynamics, experimental aerodynamics, flight mechanics and control, turbo machinery and combustion, composites for airframes, avionics, aerospace materials, structural design, analysis and testing. It has always readily accepted challenges and delivered programme-critical products and technologies, and has become the preferred destination / partner for almost all the mission-mode aerospace programmes in the country. It would not be improper to say that LCA Tejas development would have been difficult without NAL's contributions, and that every major aerospace programme of DRDO and ISRO has significant contributions from CSIR-NAL.