India to soon start building jet engine, team is getting ready..., Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal plans to....
According to the media reports, Deepinder Goyal is now planning to manufacture jet engines. His funded startup, LAT Aviation, is planning to design 100% India-sourced gas turbines for regional aircraft. The company is currently recruiting engineers with experience in turbine and rotor fabrication. LAT Aviation is a nascent aerospace endeavor founded by Deepinder Goyal and Surobhi Das.
Sharing a post on X(previously Twitter), Goyal wrote, 'At LAT, we want to get past the finish line. So we're putting together a propulsion research team in Bangalore, focused solely on building gas turbine engines from scratch. Lightweight. Efficient. Flight-ready. Made in India.'
'We're giving engineers the freedom to think, build, break, and repeat. Our dedicated research centre — with labs for combustion, turbomachinery, thermal systems, and materials, will give engineers the space and freedom to iterate fast, and get to real outcomes at a speed which is unprecedented in the industry. Also, this team will be led by engineers. No waiting around for approvals from 'business' people,' reads Goyal's post on X.
The post further read, 'No chasing slides or meetings. Just hands-on problem solving, running bench tests, working with suppliers, building hardware from scratch — and pushing the limits of design and physics every day.
'Goyal admitted that this innovation won't be without challenges, but if engineers can pull it off, it will change everything. He also mentioned in the same post that this company is not a part of Eternal, which was previously known as Zomato.
Previously, he refuted reports that LAT Aerospace, an aviation startup backed by him, has bought a Bombardier Global jet. Reacting to reports that Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal-backed LAT Aerospace has bought a Bombardier private jet, Goyal said 'LAT is a startup and has not bought any private jet'.
'We are focused on building aircraft for regional aviation and are not in the business of buying planes,' he said in a statement posted on X.
LAT Aerospace, co-founded by Goyal, aims to transform regional air travel in India with low-cost, high-frequency mini-aircraft.
It is building the future of mass aviation: a network of high-frequency, low-cost, 24-seater, STOL (short take-off and landing), medium-haul aircraft that 'make every city, every town, and every community accessible.'
'Powered by next-generation aircraft, designed ground-up for efficiency, built for affordability, and future-proofed for autonomy, we are aiming to rewrite the rules of flight,' according to the startup.
'Our aircraft will take off and land in compact 'air-stops' no bigger than a parking lot — no baggage belts, no security bottlenecks — eliminating the need for complex, expensive airport infrastructure that regional air travel simply doesn't require,' according to its website.
The startup has reportedly raised about $50 million, with $20 million invested by Goyal.
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