| HINDUSTAN TROOP GLIDER
- India's single aircraft-manufacturing company, Hindustan Aircraft
Ltd, chose as its first indigenous design project a nine-seat troop-carrying
glider. Of wood-and-fabric construction, a prototype of the glider
was flown in August 1941. With no clear IAF requirement, and the availability
of British and US gliders, planned production of 100 was cancelled,
and HAL's priorities changed to major aircraft overhaul and repair
work for the remainder of the war.
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