A Rolls Royce collided with an oil tanker on Tuesday on the bustling Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. Kuber Group director Vijay Malu was one of the three occupants of the Rolls Royce.
The Rolls Royce overtook the vehicle in front of it and crashed into the tanker. (Image: India Today)
The Rolls Royce which had collided with an oil tanker on the Delhi-Mumbai-Baroda Expressway was part of a 14-car convoy, the police said. The accident, which occurred on August 22, claimed the lives of two individuals inside the tanker and left occupants of the Rolls Royce with injuries.
Speaking to India Today, Nuh Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya said that prima facie, the fault lies with the driver of the Rolls Royce.
The accident unfolded as a convoy of 14 vehicles was travelling together on the expressway. Suddenly, the Rolls Royce accelerated, overtaking the vehicle in front of it and eventually crashing into the tanker that was taking a U-turn.
Kuber Group director Vijay Malu was one of the three occupants of the Rolls Royce and was injured in the accident. He is undergoing treatment at a Gurugram hospital.
Narendra Bijaraniya shared initial details of the investigation and said, “The Rolls Royce was involved in the accident due to the driver’s error. We have registered an FIR, and a comprehensive investigation is currently underway.”
He said that the authorities have obtained CCTV footage covering the entire expressway, which is aiding in the identification of all 14 vehicles involved in the convoy. Notices are being issued to the owners of these vehicles as part of the ongoing inquiry, the Nuh SP said.
The luxury vehicle was travelling at the speed of 200 kmph, a route patrolling officer told India Today. The permissible speed limit on the expressway is 120 kmph.
British luxury automobile maker Rolls-Royce has debuted its latest coachbuilt masterpiece – the La Rose Noire Droptail, which is the first of the four Droptail commissions. The ultra-customized vehicle, which costs more than $30 million (approx. ₹211 crore), was recently presented to the clients who commissioned it at a private event close to Pebble Beach in California. With this pricing, it has become the world’s most expensive car.
The La Rose Noire is inspired by the Black Baccara rose – a velvet-like flower that originates in France and is a favourite of the mother of the commissioning family. The colour of its petals is a dark pomegranate colour which appears almost black in shade but in direct light, it appears like a red with shimmer. These two hues form the primary colour palette of the vehicle.
This year marks the first time Britain has had a solid chance of winning Eurovision in more than a decade, and the Princess of Wales made sure tonight’s Grand Final got off to a headline-grabbing start by participating in the event’s opening film.
The short clip sees last year’s champions, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, performing their winning entry of “Stefania” in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti station, interspersed with cutaways to UK-based talents ranging from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Ms Banks. For her part, Kate performed a short instrumental piece for her cameo, filmed at a piano in the Crimson Drawing Room of Windsor Castle.
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The video was, of course, prerecorded, with the Princess wearing a one-shouldered Jenny Packham gown to play Joe Price and Kojo Samuel’s composition. The performance – and her choice of a Ukrainian-blue dress – were a welcome show of support for the eastern European country more than a year into Russia’s invasion. Controversially, the European Broadcasting Union banned President Zelensky from making an address during the contest this year out of concerns that it would violate the competition’s alleged political neutrality.
The mission, called RLV LEX, marks the first time a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 kilometres by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway.
For the mission, the Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) was carried at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force, as an underslung load. The RLV-TD flew to a height of 4.5 kilometres above mean sea level. ( Image Source : ISRO )
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday, April 2, successfully conducted the autonomous landing test or air-drop landing experiment of the space agency’s reusable launch vehicle prototype. The mission, called RLV LEX, was performed in collaboration with the Defence Space Research Organisation (DRDO), and the Indian Air Force (IAF), in the early hours of Sunday at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka.
The mission marks the first time a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 kilometres by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway.
India 🇮🇳 achieved it!
ISRO, joined by @DRDO_India@IAF_MCC, successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX)
at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours on April 2, 2023.
ISRO conducted the first experimental mission of its Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) on May 23, 2016, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. As part of this experimental mission, critical technologies such as autonomous navigation, guidance and control, and the reusable thermal protection system were successfully demonstrated.
All about ISRO’s RLV LEX mission
One of the critical technologies that ISRO had to demonstrate was the approach and autonomous landing of the reusable launch vehicle prototype on a runway. The Indian space agency accomplished this milestone as part of the RLV-LEX mission. This was the second phase of the technology demonstration missions for the reusable launch vehicle prototype.
For the mission, the RLV-TD was carried at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force, as an underslung load. The RLV-TD flew to a height of 4.5 kilometres above mean sea level, ISRO said in a mission update.
Once the predetermined parameters were attained, the RLV-TD was released mid-air. The release conditions included 10 parameters, such as position, velocity, altitude and body rates, among others.
RLV-TD was released autonomously. After being released, it performed approach and landing manoeuvres using its Integrated Navigation, Guidance and Control System.
RLV-TD completed an autonomous landing on the ATR air strip at 7:40 am IST. With this, ISRO has successfully achieved the autonomous landing of a space vehicle.
The autonomous landing of RLV-TD was carried out under the exact conditions required for the landing of a space vehicle that has re-entered the atmosphere.
Conditions were simulated in a way such that the vehicle’s speed was the same as what it would have had while arriving from space.
Landing parameters such as ground relative velocity, the sinking rate of landing gears, and precise body rates, which are likely to be experienced by an orbital re-entry space vehicle in its return path, were also taken into consideration.
The vehicle exhibited a high-speed autonomous landing at 350 kilometres per hour.
All about RLV-TD
The RLV-TD is one of the most technologically challenging endeavours of ISRO towards developing essential technologies for a fully reusable launch vehicle to enable low-cost access to space, the space agency says on its website.
RLV-TD has a configuration similar to that of an aircraft and combines the complexity of both launch vehicles and aircraft. RLV-TD is winged, a configuration intended to make the vehicle serve as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies such as hypersonic flight, autonomous landing and powered cruise flight.
In the future, RLV-TD will be scaled up to become the first stage of India’s reusable two-stage orbital launch vehicle.
RLV-TD has a length of 6.5 metres and a width of 3.6 metres. It consists of a fuselage or body, a nose cap, double-delta wings, and twin vertical tails, and features symmetrically placed active control surfaces called Elevons and Rudder.
RLV-TD is equipped with a conventional solid booster (HS9) that is designed for a low-burn rate.
The technology demonstrator has been developed using special alloys, composites and insulation materials, and crafted by highly skilled manpower.
an electric airplane pioneered by rolls-royce has set two new world speed records, making it officially the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft. named ‘spirit of innovation’, the plane reached a top speed of 555.9 km/h (345.4 mph) over 3 kilometers, and 532.1km/h (330 mph) over 15 kilometers when flown at a test site in the UK. the records have since been certified and officially confirmed by the world air sports federation (FAI).
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the achievement marks both an incredible feat of technology and a promising milestone in the transition to electric transportation. it also cements the british company’s commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
‘staking the claim for the all-electric world-speed record is a fantastic achievement for the accel team and rolls-royce,’ said rolls-royce CEO warren east. ‘I would like to thank our partners and especially electroflight for their collaboration in achieving this pioneering breakthrough. the advanced battery and propulsion technology developed for this program has exciting applications for the advanced air mobility market. following the world’s focus on the need for action at COP26, this is another milestone that will help make ‘jet zero’ a reality and supports our ambitions to deliver the technology breakthroughs society needs to decarbonize transport across air, land and sea.’
