Educational Visit To Air Force Museum

The B.Tech.(Aero) students of 1^st, 3^rd and 5^th semester were taken on educational visit to Air Force Museum, Palam, on 31-08-2017. The Air Force Museum provides a unique opportunity to learn how various types of aircraft have developed during the last 7-8 decades.

It was a one day visit for a total of 14 students accompanied by one faculty member. The visit was meant to familiarize the students with various types of aircrafts of trainer, transport, fighter (both subsonic and supersonic) and bomber categories, helicopters, aero-engines and missiles, their roles, capabilities and operation.

During the visit, the structural design features of various types of aircraft, aero-engines of piston type and turbine type, helicopters and missiles were explained to the students. The students were also shown the interior of a transport aircraft AN-12 including the layout of instruments and controls in the cockpit.