The Flying Things

To watch the sky from a hilltop is great experience. That grandeur of that experience can be dissected into the following aspects. You see the full expanse of the sky. North star and those stars on the horizon we usually miss from our courtyard are all in attendance. To see the sun rising or the sun setting from a hilltop is often heavenly. The play of colours on the horizon before and after sunset/rise is of indescribable beauty. The colours change every second; if there something to which y...

Drones were one of the things that had always amazed me. I liked it because it can be controlled by a human being when it is flying. And I had always wanted to see the world from above in 3-D at different times. So a drone would be a very good thing. You see, drones have recently gained a lot of popularity. It is being used in rescue missions aerial photography and even for modern warfare. Getting better in many things such as how far it can go or how much time it can fly or how high it can ...

Stealth is a technology that can make jets difficult to spot on the Radar. What it does is that it deflects away the RF signals or absorbs it. But a huge misconception is that “Stealth” means “Invisible”. Which is not true AT ALL. 5th Generation jets are mainly stealth aircraft. For Example - F-35 Lightning(Yes the one which came to visit Kerala and stayed due to “Severe Fever”), Su -57 Felon, F-22 Raptor, Chengdu J-20 and the J-35. There also a few projects for making more 5th Generation fighte...

Flying wing planes- It is harder to control as they don’t have tails, so they must have powerful computers to stabilise it. That is why there are a few countries in the world which makes flying wing aircraft. Example — DRDO GHATAK ( INDIA ), S-70 Okhotonik ( RUSSIA ), B-2 Spirit ( USA ). Kurt Tank, the engineer behind many famous and also Adolf Hitler’s personal aircraft, is the person to also design the HAL HF-24 MARUT, India’s first homegrown fighter jet. The MiG - 25 Foxbat, was one of the...

Air India Flight 171 crashed fatally, killing 241 out of 242 people onboard. On Thursday, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 2 pilots, 10 other crew members and 230 passengers was taking off from Ahmadabad Airport in Western India. Its destination was London Gatwick Airport. It took of from runway “23”, and just after taking off, the pilots reported their ground speed— 322 km/h, and said they were climbing to 625 feet, which is about 190 meters. A few seconds later, the pilots called [[MAYDAY]]. 241 p...