Nuts & Bolts

         Military aviation has come a long way over the last hundred years. The real push however, came during the Second World War when the scientific and industrial capabilities of countries were pitted against each other. During the war years, military aviation went from the British propeller-driven Supermarine Spitfire at the beginning to the German turbojet Messerschmitt Me 262 towards the end . It hasn’t looked back ever since and has in many cases been at the forefront of technological advancements.             Within ten years after the end of the Second World War , the Avro Arrow (CF-105), a Canadian delta-winged supersonic twin-engined interceptor aircraft was on the drawing boards. In the supercharged atmosphere of the cold war era, it took less than a decade for A. V. Roe Canada Ltd (a subsidiary of the Hawker Siddeley Group ) to progress from design and development of the Avro Arrow...

A mericans love baseball. For a country as advanced as the US, it is one more of those incomprehensible things that Americans seem to love doing which defies my understanding. However, like many of us, I too find much to admire about that great nation, it’s people and it’s institutions…none more so than it’s criminal justice system.             Baseball and the criminal justice system have something in common other than OJ Simpson…the expression “ three strikes and you are out ”. Basically, a batter against whom three strikes are recorded strikes out . The “ three-strikes laws ” were first implemented in the 1990s and are part of the US Justice Department’s Anti-Violence Strategy. The basic purpose of these laws seems to be to drastically increase the punishment of those convicted of more than two serious crimes.             The Indian Navy seems to follow a similar ...