They say that drummers make the best helicopter pilots, because to master the controls of rotary-wing aircraft ... to the mechanical complexity of the swashplate, which translates control inputs ...

The swashplate assembly is a critical ... a ₹26,000-crore contract with HAL for 240 aero-engines for the IAF’s Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft. The order book stood at ₹1,84,000 crore as ...