Tumkur Seetharamiah Prahlad (born 21 May 1940) is an Indian aerospace scientist and the former director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bengaluru, known as a specialist in Aerodynamics and Aerospace Design.
 His contributions are reported in Indian civil aircraft development programmes of Hansa and NAL Saras and light combat aircraft development programme.
 The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004, The same year, he received the H. K. Firodia Award from H. K. Firodia Memorial Foundation.
The Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition, also known as the MRCA tender, was a competition to supply 126 multi-role combat aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF).
 The Defence Ministry has allocated ₹ crore () for the purchase of these aircraft, making it India's single largest defence deal.
 The MRCA tender was floated with the idea of filling the gap between its future Light Combat Aircraft and its in-service Sukhoi Su-30MKI air superiority fighter.
The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle (골든이글) is a family of South Korean supersonic advanced trainers and light combat aircraft, developed by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) with Lockheed Martin.
 The T-50 is South Korea's first indigenous supersonic aircraft and one of the world's few supersonic trainers.
 Development began in the late 1990s, and its maiden flight occurred in 2002.
 The aircraft entered active service with the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) in 2005.
The GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri (Sanskrit: कावेरी ) is an afterburning turbofan project developed by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a lab under the DRDO in Bangalore, India.
 An Indian design, the Kaveri was originally intended to power production models of the HAL Tejas fighter, also known as the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) being built by the Aeronautical Development Agency.
 However, the Kaveri programme failed to satisfy the necessary technical requirements or keep up with its envisaged timelines and was officially delinked from the Tejas programme in September 2008.
A Light combat aircraft is a light multirole military aircraft most coming from advanced trainers that have been modified or designed for engaging in light combat missions, either in light strike or attack missions, reconnaissance or interdiction roles while some keeping its trainer role.
 They are also slower than their bigger counterparts capable only of subsonic speed though some are capable of reaching mach 1+.
 Although equipped with either guns or short range air-to-air missiles it is usually for self-defense purpose or anti-helicopter missions not for air defense as lightweight fighters do, though some are capable of air combat missions due to integrated or have variants capable of carrying powerful multi-mode radar systems, most LCAs don't have such due to their small limited design or are less powerful.
 However they can still be used to patrol the skies and implement border patrol or air policing.
 These aircraft are usually smaller and more lightly armed than the bigger multirole or strike aircraft such as the American F-18, F-15E Strike Eagle or Russian Mig-29.
 Most LCAs are armed with either bombs, rockets or gun pods used for COIN or CAS missions.
 Some aircraft have been developed to integrate more advanced armaments such as smart bombs and air to ground missiles and electronic targeting systems for better mission capability.
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of India's Ministry of Defence was established at Bangalore, in 1984 to oversee the development of the nation's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme.
 Currently, the organisation is involved in design and development of multiple versions of LCA, HAL AMCA and UCAV.
 Dr. Girish S. Deodhare is the Programme Director, Combat Aircraft and Director, ADA.
 He's one of the students of Dr. Vidyasagar, who is considered to be the pioneers of advanced technology of his times.
A multirole combat aircraft (MRCA) is a combat aircraft intended to perform different roles in combat.
 A multirole fighter is a multirole combat aircraft which is, at the same time, also a fighter aircraft; in other words, an aircraft whose various roles include, among others, the role of air-to-air combat.
The Korea Aerospace Industries KF-X/Indonesian Aerospace IF-X is a South Korean and Indonesian program to develop an advanced multirole fighter for the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) and Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU), spearheaded by South Korea with Indonesia as the primary partner.
 It is South Korea's second fighter development program following the FA-50.
The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and Navy.
 The aircraft has a tail-less compound delta-wing configuration, which provides for high maneuverability.
 It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India's ageing MiG-21 fighters.
 LCA was officially named "Tejas" in 2003, meaning "Radiant" in Sanskrit by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The PADC Defiant 300 is a prototype aircraft developed by the Philippines Aerospace Development Company (PADC) in cooperation with the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and the Philippine Aerospace and Sciences Foundation (PASF).
 The project was made possible through Capt. Panfillo Villaruel, the man who designed the aircraft, and the one who also contributed to the creation of the first indigenous Filipino-made helicopter, the PADC Hummingbird.
 The first prototype was completed in 1986 and had its maiden flight in 1987, which lasted a little more than an hour.
 The Defiant 300's fuselage was of composite construction (wood and fiberglass) and was powered by a 300 hp Lycoming piston engine.
 Landing gear was taken from the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor and provided by the PAF.
 The intent of the program was to provide the PAF with a trainer and light strike aircraft similar in performance to the Embraer EMB 312 Tucano.
 The Defiant 300 was to have been followed by a larger version equipped with a turboprop engine and designated the "Defiant 500".
 The project languished soon after the development of the prototype because of lack of government support.
 Currently, the sole remaining prototype now lies abandoned and displayed in a hangar at the Philippine State College of Aeronautics.

Question: In which year was the maiden flight of the light combat aircraft developed in South Korea's first fighter development program
Answer: 2002