Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
Have been watching this game from the late or early ’70s from Trivandrum
THUMBI was the name of the Rocket
It was ment to be a school demonstrator not commercial
MC Dattan was using his spare time working on this pet informal work
Looking at the Indian Environment, it would be a tough job to have model rocketry as open commercial activity
However on appropriate scale can be commercialized for Schools and Collage kits
Need to be associated with industry to know how to steer through legal procedures
Not knock at door to door
Using commonly available scrap, I have seen kids experiment with concepts
Does need only kitchen stuff for solid fuel, need not get stuck to black powder
The first model rocket was launched at night from Delhi’s ridge in the late Fifties by three high-school students. The model rocket consisted of a pipe salvaged from an old car exhaust pipe (“heat-resistant you see”)., about half-a-metere long; a balsa-wood nose cone (minimum dead weight), and was fueled by a mixture of sulphur and zinc powder. The payload was a mercury switch that activated that closed and supposed to activa5te a light when the rocket curved past apogee (did not work; the boys had forgottten about zero-G at apogee). The range safety officer was the late Wing Commander Situ mallick, then PRO of the Ministry of Defence. A home-made theodolite operated by the mother of one of the boys attempted to track the rocket — to no avail. “It was so fast”
How do I know all this? Because I was one of those school boys.
Have been watching this game from the late or early ’70s from Trivandrum
THUMBI was the name of the Rocket
It was ment to be a school demonstrator not commercial
MC Dattan was using his spare time working on this pet informal work
Looking at the Indian Environment, it would be a tough job to have model rocketry as open commercial activity
However on appropriate scale can be commercialized for Schools and Collage kits
Need to be associated with industry to know how to steer through legal procedures
Not knock at door to door
Using commonly available scrap, I have seen kids experiment with concepts
Does need only kitchen stuff for solid fuel, need not get stuck to black powder
Wish you the best
The first model rocket was launched at night from Delhi’s ridge in the late Fifties by three high-school students. The model rocket consisted of a pipe salvaged from an old car exhaust pipe (“heat-resistant you see”)., about half-a-metere long; a balsa-wood nose cone (minimum dead weight), and was fueled by a mixture of sulphur and zinc powder. The payload was a mercury switch that activated that closed and supposed to activa5te a light when the rocket curved past apogee (did not work; the boys had forgottten about zero-G at apogee). The range safety officer was the late Wing Commander Situ mallick, then PRO of the Ministry of Defence. A home-made theodolite operated by the mother of one of the boys attempted to track the rocket — to no avail. “It was so fast”
How do I know all this? Because I was one of those school boys.