Government flying school at Bangalore takes off again
Bangalore: One of India’s oldest flying schools in the city is taxiing to take off, once again.
An old yellow colour bird Cessna 152A, which had flown to its home in the skies often, has been sitting in the humongous hangar at the 60-year-old Government Flying School (GFS). Another one, a Hansa, is parked next to this trainer aircraft. And they will all be busy from next month thanks to a senior IAS officer I.M. Vittala Murthy who is on a one-man mission to pilot the famous — but controversy-ridden — school that lay grounded for many years to greater heights.
IM Vittala Murthy-instrumental in flying school taking off. Murthy told India Today while on a visit to the school at Jakkur, on the way to the new Bangalore airport, that there will be a total of five trainer aircraft at the school that has witnessed a turbulent decade; the historic school has been racked with internal dissensions, court cases and, above all, sheer governmental apathy.
The Jakkur school opened in 1948 on a 211-acre land donated by the Mysore maharajas who also had their own airplane, a Dakota DC3. India’s first woman pilot Usha Sundaram, 84, who graduated with a pilot license from the first batch even flew Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru from Jakkur to Mysore on the Dakota aircraft. Hundreds of students have passed out of the aviation training school over the years until the school hit an airpocket in 1997 for almost five years.
24/01/09 Stephen David/India Today
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