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Air Marshal Tarun Chaudhry assumes charge as chief of Central Air Command

Air Marshal Tarun Chaudhry assumes charge as chief of Central Air Command NEW DELHI: Air Marshal Tarun Chaudhry on Monday assumed the charge of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Air Command. He was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force in Dec 1989.During his distinguished career, the Air Marshal has held several important operational, staff and diplomatic appointments, including defence attache at the embassy of India in Sweden with concurrent...

Can Aerial VLA Models Cooperate? Evaluating Closed-Loop Air-Ground Coordination with CARLA-Air

arXiv:2605.31066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent aerial vision-language-action (VLA) models show promising single-UAV capabilities, such as tracking moving objects and navigating to language-specified landmarks. However, it remains unclear whether these capabilities can transfer to air-ground cooperation, where a UAV and a UGV must act jointly in a shared, closed-loop physical world. We study this question with CARLA-Air, a single-process air-ground evaluation environment that unifies...

Solubility enhanced surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air sheets

Announce Type: new Abstract: Liquid interfaces appear throughout nature and engineering and are typically contaminated by surface active agents (surfactants), which are characterized by a wide range of solubility. We demonstrate that solubility enhances by an order of magnitude surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air films, in contrast to previously studied geometries where solubility dampens the flow. The enhancement is described by a single parameter comparing the depletion length to the...

UPSC success story: Born without a forearm, Kajal Raju's journey from AIR 910 to AIR 167

For many UPSC aspirants, clearing the Civil Services Examination is the ultimate goal. For Kajal Raju, however, success did not end with her first selection. The IIT Madras graduate continued pushing herself until she reached the rank she had always aimed for.

The Acer Swift Air 14 looks like a cute and breezy Windows alternative to the MacBook Air

After $7 billion in losses, Boeing and the Air Force claim refueling tanker plane is finally fixed

After $7 billion in losses, Boeing and the Air Force claim refueling tanker plane is finally fixed Boeing and the Air Force have spent years trying to fix the tanker's remote vision system (RVS), critical for midair refueling with its boom - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments The U.S. Air Force is confident a fix has been found for long-running troubles with a key system on Boeing's KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday. Boeing and...

FAA pushing to hire thousands of new air traffic controllers as airport delays continue after shutdown

FAA pushing to hire thousands of new air traffic controllers as airport delays continue after shutdown Latest recruitment drive comes amid ongoing disruption at domestic air travel hubs and staff shortages - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments The Federal Aviation Administration is looking to hire thousands of new air traffic controllers to tackle ongoing delays at domestic airports and staff shortages. The FAA’s 2026 Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan pledges to hire 2,200 new controllers...

‘That’s why we work in finance – so one day we can afford air-con’: Britain’s unequal heatwave

While some found this week’s heat a breeze, many in poorer areas face health risks in furnace-like homesTravelling from his air-conditioned flat to the air-conditioned Elizabeth line to his air-conditioned office, 27-year-old banker Aykhan found this week’s heatwave a breeze. Smiling while grabbing lunch in the shopping centre under the gleaming One Canada Square skyscraper in Canary Wharf, he said he’d been sleeping very well over the last few days. “It’s a new flat, the air-con is great,...

‘That’s why we work in finance – so one day we can afford air-con’: Britain’s unequal heatwave

While some found this week’s heat a breeze, many in poorer areas face health risks in furnace-like homesTravelling from his air-conditioned flat to the air-conditioned Elizabeth line to his air-conditioned office, 27-year-old banker Aykhan found this week’s heatwave a breeze. Smiling while grabbing lunch in the shopping centre under the gleaming One Canada Square skyscraper in Canary Wharf, he said he’d been sleeping very well over the last few days. “It’s a new flat, the air-con is great,...

‘That’s why we work in finance – so one day we can afford air-con’: Britain’s unequal heatwave

While some found this week’s heat a breeze, many in poorer areas face health risks in furnace-like homesTravelling from his air-conditioned flat to the air-conditioned Elizabeth line to his air-conditioned office, 27-year-old banker Aykhan found this week’s heatwave a breeze. Smiling while grabbing lunch in the shopping centre under the gleaming One Canada Square skyscraper in Canary Wharf, he said he’d been sleeping very well over the last few days. “It’s a new flat, the air-con is great,...