{"id":106,"date":"2011-02-13T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T09:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-02-13T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T09:40:55","slug":"drdo%e2%80%99s-high-dreams-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"DRDO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high dreams dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRDO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s showpiece at Aero India &#8211; Aerostat, a surveillance balloon &#8211; was not allowed to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfly high\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at the show as the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) had denied it permission.<br \/>\nOther than India, only two other countries &#8211; the US and Israel &#8211; have it. The Aerostat rose to a height of 40 metres only twice at the show (only for half an hour) &#8211; once before the defence minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s visit and once before the mediapersons.<br \/>\nAn official from the aerial delivery research &amp; development establishment of Defence Research and Development Organisation said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have kept it (the Aerostat) at winch level (ground level) since beginning of the show. We always wanted to keep it flying. But denial of permission by ATC was a dampener.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe ATC, however, said it had denied permission as a safety measure as the Aerostat would hamper the movement of flights.<br \/>\nAn Aerostat can remain stationary in the air and it is tethered to the ground through an electro-optic wire. An official said while a micro UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) does surveillance work, it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fly for a longer time. However, an Aerostat can fly continuously for seven days.<br \/>\n13\/02\/11 Sameer Ranjan Bakshi\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangaloremirror.com\/article\/10\/20110213201102130107507934a0bc50c\/DRDO%E2%80%99s-high-dreams-dashed.html\">Bangalore Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DRDO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s showpiece at Aero India &#8211; Aerostat, a surveillance balloon &#8211; was not allowed to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfly high\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at the show as the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) had denied it permission. Other than India, only two other countries &#8211; the US and Israel &#8211; have it. The Aerostat rose to a height of 40 metres only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,11,80],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aerostat","tag-defence","tag-drdo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}