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"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer."
— Jim Carrey
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Same mountains. Same thin air. A rather different definition of a landing strip. Nyoma, 64 years apart!
Look for a C-119, Dakota and an IL-76MD…
13,629 FEET. A NEW HEIGHT IN AVIATION HISTORY.
An Indian Air Force IL-76MD has scripted history with a successful landing at Nyoma, marking the highest-altitude landing ever achieved by the aircraft anywhere in the world.
A remarkable demonstration of the aircraft’s enduring capability, backed by the exceptional skill, precision, and professionalism of its crew.
A milestone that reinforces India’s strategic airlift capability.
Pushing boundaries. Redefining limits. Making history.
#IndianAirForce #IAF #Nyoma #AviationHistory #IndianDefence
@DefenceMinIndia
@SpokespersonMoD
@HQ_IDS_India
@adgpi
@indiannavy
@CareerinIAF
@air_veterans
Himanshu Awasthi retweeted
In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
Legend
दिल्ली पुलिस की एक महिला हेड कॉन्स्टेबल ने ऐसा काम किया है, जिसने कई परिवारों के चेहरों पर फिर से मुस्कान लौटा दी है. दक्षिण-पूर्वी जिले के जैतपुर थाने में तैनात महिला हेड कॉन्स्टेबल चंचल ने महज 12 महीनों में 119 लापता बच्चों को तलाश कर उनके परिवारों तक पहुंचाया है. इसके अलावा उन्होंने 16 अन्य लापता लोगों को भी खोज निकाला है.
#DelhiPolice #HeadConstable #MissingChildren #NDTVIndia
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Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama (1995) 4K movie is now available on Internet Archive (Without watermark)
Link:
archive.org/details/@ramayan…
Hero
This is why we call it the “Pilot In Command”
This happened in the same vicinity where the ill-fated Lear Jet hit the storm cell.
JetBlue pilot en route from Fort Lauderdale to Austin says to ATC:
“So you're gonna make us go through a, uh, severe thunderstorm?”
The captain then commanded the situation and overrode the ATC:
“So we declare an emergency, making a left turn heading 260 for severe weather avoidance.”
Sometimes piloting demands a specific set of traits - decisiveness, independent judgment, and the backbone to reject an instruction when it doesn’t feel right.
Refusing the assigned heading showed exactly that kind of assertive leadership.
Whoever is pilot monitoring must make these tough calls but ultimately, the captain is the final authority and ultimately accountable for every soul on board.
Himanshu Awasthi retweeted
On this day 32 years ago, in 1994, Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged in New York" was released.
It is considered the greatest Unplugged performance ever made.
Himanshu Awasthi retweeted
Fim de uma era. Hoje, a Jeppesen imprimiu sua última carta do *Airway Manual*. Sei que muitos de vocês, de uma forma ou de outra, passaram incontáveis horas realizando revisões. Agora, tudo é feito de forma eletrônica por meio do nosso incrível EFB, o FDPro.
Himanshu Awasthi retweeted
After 92 years, Jeppesen has ceased producing paper charts. All remaining subscribers will be credited their remaining subscription balances. Truly an end of an era that I never imagined would happen.
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"Good morning, gentlemen, the temperature is 110 degrees."
"Holy shit, it's Viper!"
Himanshu Awasthi retweeted
Ejection from a Su-25 through the eyes of a pilot.
This is probably the first time in history that such footage of an ejection has been filmed in combat conditions, and at an extremely low altitude.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is 2022 footage of a Russian Su-25 hitting a power line during a training flight near Belgorod, Russia, not combat. Released October 2022 by Fighterbomber.
ria.ru/20220617/avari…
businessinsider.com/video-shows-ru…
aerotime.aero/articles/32480…