The fastest bird in the world is the Asian spine-tailed swift. In a level flight, it can reach a speed of 102 miles per hour (170 kilometers per hour).

Sam Verma, an NRI from nearby town of Betul, touched down in his 4 seater plane at Nagpur,Sonegoan, airport sometime yesterday morning.

There were two things which excite me about this seemingly routine travel of a rich bussiness man.

1) The plane he was flying was indegenously assembled
2) The plane used a bio-fuel derived from agricultural waste – basically ethanol

According to reports he wants to assemble and sell such planes in India. The planes would be priced as much as a small car.

Have managed to lay my hands on two more of the Star Wars novels and “The book of lost tales” by JRRT

But before reading those I plan to, like , re-read the four Robot novels by Issac Asimov. On a similar note I also saw a Foundation novel which has not been written by Asimov but approved by the Asimov foundation – did not pick it up as I was not sure.