The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Tuesday removed the picture of Lord Hanuman from the tail of the HLFT-42 aircraft model displayed at the Aero India 2023 event in Bengaluru.
This comes a day after HAL unveiled a scale model of the Hindustan Lead in Fighter trainer (HLFT-42), which also showcased a photo of Lord Hanuman on the vertical fin of the trainer.
The HLFT-42 aircraft is the successor of HAL Marut, the first Indigenous aircraft.
Marut is the other name for Wind, or ‘Pawan’ as it is called in Hindi.
The son of Pawan was Lord Hanuman, which is why a picture of the lord was displayed on the model aircraft.
