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@Cricketracker Stays with RR for a record sum.

What if❓ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi enters the next IPL auction, which team will pick him, and at what price? 📸: IPL/BCCI

@RShivshankar The question to ask is why are they doing this?

PAK PR AT ITS BEST. NAME CHANGE WON'T UNDO THE SIN OF ETHNIC CLEANSING. In 1947, almost 23% Pak population was non-Muslim. Today, the proportion of non-Muslims has declined to approximately 3 percent. Hindu population has gone from 15% to 1.7%.

NTSB has released a new animation showing how the left engine separated from the wing of the UPS MD-11F crash in Louisville. On Nov. 4, 2025, UPS Flight 2976 crashed moments after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, killing all 3 crew members and 11 people on the ground, while injuring 23 others. The aircraft involved was MD-11F N259UP.

@ViralReelAddict @ElonMackk Back and cut the wheel to max right.

As a master driver, do you move forward or backward?

@SimoneSyed Have schooled both our grown daughters, they are their own masters and what others think is irrelevant most of the time..find such posts disturbing.

@NikhilNaz It’s the power generation and cricket sense vs age curve which gets everyone.

Don’t extend the courtesy of praising Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in relation to his young age. He doesn’t need it. Because what he is doing with the bat is extraordinary for any age—15 or 23 or 32 or whatever.

@mufaddal_vohra Probably trying to recruit him for next year!

LSG Owner Sanjiv Goenka with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after his brilliant knock tonight.

@mufaddal_vohra That is an A….probably like a report card!

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi said, "I keep trying new celebrations every time just for fun. Even in the last match, the celebration I did had no meaning".

@KaptainPetrovs Codeshare rationalizes capacity and maximizes yeild, considering Air India’s revenue numbers, must have been one of the weaker routes on the network, and this unfortunate considering the potential SIN carries in the front cabin.

So, what did Air India's collaboration with Singapore Airlines really achieve? This route is not constrained with Pak and Gulf war airspace closure.

@crusade_enjoyer @KhalifKairo Done a piece on the Blackbirds. theaviationevangelist.com/2025/11/21/the…

The same guy designed the P-38 and the SR-71.

@bscholl @SimoneSyed And then the SAMs came in…

@SimoneSyed Bomber

Start we swiftly with steeds unsaddled

@SimoneSyed And the XB-70’s alter ego the Blackbirds! theaviationevangelist.com/2025/11/21/the…

@SimoneSyed Such an amazing aircraft! Did a piece on the design and construction of the XB-70. Enjoy the read! theaviationevangelist.com/2025/12/03/xb-…

@MarioNawfal Enjoy the read! theaviationevangelist.com/2025/12/16/sup…

🇺🇸 Boom Supersonic just stuffed a 42-megawatt power turbine inside a shipping container. Called "Superpower," it runs in extreme heat with no water cooling needed and can be deployed anywhere. Boom just made it portable.

@Habubrats71 theaviationevangelist.com/2025/11/21/the…

@Habubrats71 Think you will enjoy these reads. theaviationevangelist.com/2025/10/22/the…

Russia made multiple mistakes in the Cold War. They did this by assuming the wrong thing. Another big mistake that the Russians made along with selling us titanium alloy was thinking that the work of one of their scientist was so obscure that it wouldn’t ever be important to them or anyone else. They allowed it to be published worldwide! Thinking nobody would care about it! Just like the Russians thought that the titanium we were buying from them was for our pizza ovens because Americans were too lazy to cook, we ordered pizza all the time. WRONG Ben Rich of the Skunk Works and his engineers were looking for a way to produce a stealth bomber. In 1971, a translator at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency saw the document and thought that it might be useful. It certainly was… the work of this Russian, and was the beginning of the F-117. Russian physicist named Pyotr Ufimtsev. His paper, benignly entitled “Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction,” was part of a body of work published to describe the behavior of radio waves in real-world situations. In particular, Ufimtsev’s documents laid out the actual mathematical formulas and calculations needed to describe the RCS (radar cross section )of a particular object when a radar wave reflected off of it. It turns out that this was a huge step in the construction of an airframe with a small RCS. The key to the Lockheed design was based upon shape, the form of which came from the results of studies developed from Ufimtsev’s formulas. The Skunk Works design team led by Ben Rich (the successor to the legendary Kelly Johnson) decided that a faceted design would give them the best baseline level of stealth against the widest variety of enemy radars. Called the “Hopeless Diamond”  The F117 is still flying today. Written by John D. Gresham with Linda Sheffield

@RichKettle07 Get back to basics.

One last piece of advice for Chewing gum king Suryakumar Yadav 🧐

@thejackbeyer Enjoy the read. theaviationevangelist.com/2025/11/04/the…

NASA Armstrong is just flexing at this point. I love to see it.

@DrChrisCombs Love the aircraft. Did a piece on the design and construction. theaviationevangelist.com/2025/11/04/the…

X-59 IN THE AIR AGAIN LET'S GOOOO

@northropgrumman @usairforce Enjoy the read. theaviationevangelist.com/2025/10/22/the…

The B-21 Raider Combined Test Force, a partnership with @usairforce, cut a 180-day test plan to 73 days, securing $11.8B with half the missions. We're driving next-gen stealth forward, fast and focused.