Air India is selling three long-haul Boeing 777 aircraft to help raise money to pay off its outstanding debt. The proposal to sell the aircraft comes less than four months after the airline sold five such long-range models to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways. Currently, the state-run airline intends to offer three widebody Boeing 777-200s, powered with General Electric GE90-110 engines, for complete sale “through competitive global bidding,” an airline official says. Bidding is expected to begin next month.

NEW DELHI — The naval variant of India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-Navy) went supersonic recently, reaching a speed of Mach 1.1. “It a great achievement, since the aircraft was plagued with several problems in-between,” says an official at the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the nodal agency for the development of the LCA.

NEW DELHI — India’s Mars orbiter spacecraft, launched last year, has traveled more than 340 million km (211 million mi.) and crossed the halfway point on its journey to the red planet, according to the country’s space agency.