Mission accomplishedPrivately-operated Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft left the International Space Station after its first successful demonstration mission. (Nasa)
Spit-fireGraham Taylor was named RAF Photographer of the year in this year’s Royal Air Force Photographic Competition for his photo of a Spitfire TE311 performing a “hot start”. (PA Wire)
Also featured in the RAF Photographic Competition is this Voyager Aircraft taking part in the Queens Birthday Flypast over London in June this year. (SAC Andy Masson/UK MOD)
Fire escapeDucks moving to a safer place through the bush fires raging in the Blue Mountains, Australia. (Getty Images)
Water sightA helicopter with a bucket for dropping water onto bushfires flies past the Sun as it is obscured by smoke in western Sydney, Australia. (Reuters)
Star lightNasa astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (centre), and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitanor strike a pose on the International Space Station. (Nasa)
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natarajan
Take off with Natarajan 
Sir…nice to see your website I just bumped upon…I was in Civil and Project Division in late 1980’s when you were Sr. Manager Finance/Accounts My name is Rangesh (new name) /M.Chandrasekaran (old name). I had left IAAI in 1996 and worked for Malaysian Airports new project in Sepang. Currently I am an Independent Consultant of Airfield/Highway Pavement Design
Still remember your offer to me to take your residential plot at Shollinganallur Mango Grove layout; if you still own it you must be a crorepathy…
It’s nice to see your good contribution through this website
Best Regards
Nice to get a comment from one of my old colleagues….after so many years , that too … Thanks to the present day inf. and commn. tech. Be in touch.. Keep visiting my site .
Reg . the layout site , you have mentioned in your comment, i must say that not everbody is destined to become Crorepathy!!!….including me !!!…only very few are lucky… May be that we are otherwise lucky elsewhere… SO no regrets !!!!
natarajan