It is a white toothed whale related to the narwhal, living in the Arctic coastal waters in herds. Beluga is an Airbus product, modified AB-300-600ST aircraft made to airlift heavy and voluminous cargo. One of these days, an enthusiastic young blog reader asked me about this funny aircraft. He was so curious to know what an aircraft…
The farthest a human made machine to go is Voyager 1 which is now at the interstellar space after our Solar System. Voyager 1 travels at a speed of 17 Kms per second and is around 18.8 billion Kms away from the Earth. Voyager 2 is in a longer trajectory, approximately 15.3 billion Kms away…
It is now more than a month, since I did not post any paintings of my friend Mr. Ilayaraja, whom you all are aware of the talency he possess as we have seen a number of his oil paintings on Tamil village girls. These girls believe me, you feel like seen somewhere.Today I am putting…
Many Hindu women like to wear a stud or a beautiful jewelry in their nose. But unfortunately they do not know why they wear it. Why not we find out, why Hindus do this? Yes, that is a good question and we are all curious to get the right answer. Well, let us look into…
Why do Indian woman wear hip chain and what is the significance in it? It is believed that woman used to decorate their hip by wearing ornamental jewelry ever since 4000 years or more. It all originated in India as seen in sculptures and paintings from the time dating back to the Indus valley civilization.…
In the event of a plane crash, records indicate that children are most likely to survive as miraculous survivals have been recorded. Children have greater chances to survive as if only one to survive then it will be a child less than 18 years of age. During the four decades, a survey shows that there…
Lovely old memories. Nice and learned a lot from the 2 years of service with Dubai International Airport, 6 years of service with Singapore Airlines and 13 years with the Indonesia’s National Airline “Garuda Indonesia”. Traveled a lot . Great experiences. And now a sharp turn towards Aviation MRO (Maintenance Repair Overhaul). Well, interesting and learning like a beginner.
Mayday calls are raised in emergency or in serious trouble from an Airplane or a Ship. This morning when I took the newspaper, I saw big news that one of the scheduled Indian flights made a Mayday call and landed safely. Reason mentioned was short of fuel and unable to land due to zero visibility.…
The crashed Aircraft is 28 years old and Trigana Air was banned by European Union due to poor safety standards. The weather conditions en-route was bad, including heavy turbulence on the flight path. The crashed ATR 42- 300 of Trigana Air (Indonesia) is a twin turboprop short-haul aircraft built 28 years back. ATR is a joint venture…
Dear Blog followers and Facebook friends, The month of July have passed smoothly, but of course with little turbulence. Fine, but for me I had some thing very special. Unexpectedly I got a business from Christ Church (New Zealand) a set of Fokker 100 ( A jet in service with many, world wide) window Plexiglass…
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