Vikram G Krishnan

Aviation Professional ।
#AvGeek । #WW2 History Buff ।
Views expressed here are Personal.

[Sanjiv Kapoor @TheSanjivKapoor]

From back in August 2006... as a Manager at Bain, presented this slide to the then management of Jet Airways in a pitch, alerting them of what was to come. This was when Indigo aircraft #1 was in flight tests.

This slide was laughed off.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[Damien Symon @detresfa_]

India updates a notification for a likely long range missile test in the Indian Ocean Region, the range has been extended & now is near 3,760-km

Date | 06-07 August 2026

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

A sharp last salute by 103 yrs old Lt Gen Surindra Nath ‘Tindy’ Sharma to his younger brother Gen Vishwa Nath ‘Tich’ Sharma, former Chief of Army Staff who died aged 96.
Their eldest brother Major Som Nath Sharma died defending Srinagar airfield from Pakistani invaders in 1947 at the age of 24 yrs and was awarded the first Param Vir Chakra of independent India.

[Airbus @Airbus]

History made.
After a 12,460NM (23,075.92 km) / 24 hours 24 minutes direct flight from Melbourne 🇦🇺, the #A350-1000ULR arrives home in Toulouse 🇫🇷.

Watch the journey on @FlightRadar24: https://t.co/tzKbCjsfFM

#Ultimate #LongRangeLeader

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission.

The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed.

#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #OpeningSpaceForAll

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

We’ll be watching this ignition on loop all day.

Kalam-1200 — Vikram-1's first stage, named for Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam — roaring to life and lifting Vikram-1 off the pad, on a flight that reached orbit.

#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

🚨 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗸𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗔𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲'𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗺-𝟭 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟱 𝗣𝗠 𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥! 🚀

The era of commercial spaceflight has begun in India 🇮🇳

#Skyroot | #Vikram1

[Vikram G Krishnan @AvionViks]

@manishasinghal Subrata Roy 'Sahara' was another exception, or a smart one.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[Shreyass Rao @sambaarseparate]

I am honestly done with “bengaluru airport is not in Bengaluru” jokes.
Take any big city, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok- the airport is literally a minimum 90 mins away from the city centre.
This joke is really not landing anymore

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

For Father’s Day, I’ll share this letter to Karl Marx from his dad

[Vikram G Krishnan @AvionViks]

Witnessed a 'Murder' at the airport.

[Chennai Updates @UpdatesChennai]

PARANDUR AIRPORT ✈️
Why is it needed for Chennai?? A long read! Share Max.

Firstly people who’s lands are being acquired for #Parandur Airport are being given :
🔹 3-4 times the market value of the land
🔹Alternate housing is being given to them just next to the project site . Tenders are already out for it
🔹Govt jobs are being promised to the people

➡️Now political parties should push the govt to make sure these benefits reach the people which they truly deserve rather than telling to completely drop the project!
➡️Chennai badly needs a new airport! The existing one at Meenambakkam has planned max capacity of 35 MPA and it’s the smallest in terms of area among all airports. Nearby Bengaluru (70MPA) or Hyderabad (70MPA) have bigger capacities. Mumbai & Delhi are building 2nd airports too. Bengaluru is going for 3rd airport
➡️One can’t acquire land at the existing airport. Getting land from OTA is close to impossible and cost of acquiring land at nearby Gerugambakkam is costlier than that at Parandur.
➡️ Existing one has a river too flowing through it and its layout has always been an issue given its narrow access via GST Rd. Cargo terminal is small as well and we have been losing to Bengaluru/Hyderabad in terms of Logistics ecosystem
➡️Airport is just not about the rich people flying. Reports suggest that more Indians will fly in the next 10 yrs. Indian Airlines have 1,000+ planes or order and we need airports to cater to them! Parandur with a full fledged airport will supports Logistics+ Warehousing ecosystem, Hotels, MRO etc providing jobs for Lakhs!
➡️4-5 sites were studied for a 2nd airport for Chennai & Parandur was found the best considering various factors! It’s literally impossible for find 4,000+ acres around Chennai without a water body or agri land!
➡️ Lastly the water bodies there at Parandur are man made lakes! The govt has setup a commission & studied its impact! New artificial lakes will be built with diversion water channel to prevent flooding! Any infra project will have its consequences! Mettur Dam was built submerging several villages. Today it’s the lifeline to several TN’s District!!

Plz support the project! It’s need of the hour! TN and Chennai deserves a world class airport. Plz keep politics away 🙏🙏

[Chennai RE Updates @ChennaiREUpdate]

Looks like Parandur has received its death knell.
Goodbye aspirations of a trillion $ economy.
Bringing in SIPCOT Industrial Park in place of an airport citing agriculture ecosystem being disturbed, is a blunder!!
Didn't matter even if Industry bodies lobbied for it. We will never have a worldclass airport, a worldclass aerocity. Bury your dreams as top talent Tamils will continue to fly out to work in cities such as Blr, Hyd and Mum.

[AayudhamSeivom @asvom_hub]

Next video: Current "Technical" problems with Chennai airport, solutions planned by AAI and even after that why it will eventually saturate.. and we need Second airport..
Many think existing airport is enough, but this video will open their eyes...

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

“To beard the lion in his den.”

The dictionary defines it as boldly confronting a powerful rival on their own turf.

For years, Norway Chess has been Magnus Carlsen’s den. His turf. His domain.

So I woke up to this news and my jaw dropped.

You didn’t just win a title, @rpraggnachess.

You walked into the lion’s den and emerged victorious

This title is important. Not because of the trophy, but because of your challenger spirit.

And that’s something all of us can learn from…

🇮🇳👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Vikram G Krishnan @AvionViks]

@grok @Nazumejud "The Cosmic Swirl" in the pic is actually how a lot of Toilet systems of the aircraft work.
Not all aircraft have a Vacuum Toilet system. Many aircraft have a chemical system (recirculating blue water toilet system)

[Puja Teli @ThePujaTeli]

East (No name) Company…

[karen still says @andrews58753]

🤣

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

I've never found a windshield wiper setting that truly satisfied me.