HAL HJT-36 Sitara Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT)

not gonna lie. a lot of HAL's aircraft designs are not going to win any best looking award
btw i added some tags, hope you dont mind.
 
It is a cute little flyer. I like it. If you want to call any trainer ugly look at the old soviet L-29!

Edit: autocorrect incorrectly autocorrected.
 
I guess it depends on the angle/colour scheme. I've seen worse. L-29 (Czecho-Slovak) from wiki, HJT-36 from airliners.net.
 

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That is some stepped tandem cockpit! Think they might have over-cooked it a little. No excuse for the instructor not to see everything.
 
Apparently in development for about two decades already; requirements can change quite a bit meanwhile. So can available technologies. One could of course counter that it has taken a similar amount of time to seek and field a replacement for the T-38 but that program, at least, materialized in one way or another several viable candidates in far less time. Slightly curious about the effort as a whole. Indian aerospace projects, while sometimes tardy, can also be very frugal in ways that wouldn't necessarily occur to other organizations.
 
AeroFranz said:
The intakes in particular look like an afterthought.
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Showing it's HJT-16 Kiran ancestry . . .

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HAL HJT-16 Kiran - Wikipedia

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image source :- https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galleries/20462-3/Kiran13.jpg

cheers,
Robin.
 
AeroFranz said:
The intakes in particular look like an afterthought.
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Similarly the horizontal tail looks like it was an afterthought long after the rest of the airframe was completed.
Was it designed by a committee?
Seriously, mounting the horizontal tail that far aft reduces the amount that it masks the rudder during spins.
 

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