As a part of our curriculum, I had to conduct few onboard flight experiments, so I headed off to IIT K's Flight lab. The experiments were conducted on a NAL Hansa 3 trainer aircraft(a reciprocating engine prop driven aircraft) and I had the best 20 mins of my life   flying in the cockpit alongside Captain K B Singh(he also gave me the controls for a short duration during the flight  ).

The experiments included a steady level flight(cruise), climb, steady level turns, dutch roll, phugoid and stall(little scary ) all aimed at determining the drag polar, neutral point and stability control derivatives of the aircraft. After the experiments were over and the data had been collected, I took out my phone and recorded the landing.

The details of the experiments are a little technical, so I won't post unless someone is interested in knowing.

I'll start off with some pictures. Video of the landing to follow!    

Pic 1 : Flight Lab
    2,3 : NAL Hansa 3
    4 : Cockpit of the Airplane

Other attractions  :

More piper cub pictures for scratch builders :

Got to witness some RC flying and FPV during the annual sp4mm3r.

The onboard landing video will be uploaded tomorrow!

Here is the video :

u could have just said u were there....

the guy with the quad is gaurav agarwal. ( gauravag on  the forum), i was there to, along with abbas( first pic left side grey shirt)  and abhay( sitting down in front of abbas), u had aAMAI president and treasurer also present there....!

Wow! I did sense that initially(but then thought otherwise, infact it was a coincidence for me to be during the sp4mm3r and I had no hint beforehand that people from here would be coming down to IIT K) but really as you said I should have said that. Missed a great opportunity of speaking to you all.