GP CAPT NOEL MOITRA VM : RET'D

                                                             Gp Capt Noel Moitra  VM

1. An alumnus of Loyola School and Junior College, Pune, I hold a Diploma in German, obtained in 1972 from Goethe-Institut at Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune. A linguist, I speak French, Hindi and three other regional languages.
2. Passed SSLC Exam with Distinction.
3. 1st in UPSC Selection Exam (Air Force) for the National Defence Academy.
4. 1st in NDA Air Branch Cadets written tests.
5. 1st in Flying Instructors School, Tambaram, Chennai.
6. Bagged Majithia Trophy with record marks that still stand.
7. Did my QFI tenure at AFA
   

8. 

   The Majithia Trophy Presented by Air Mshl BW Chauhan

9. Inducted MiG-21 bis in 1976.
10. Fastest 1,000 hrs on the MiG-21 bis.
11. Appointed sub-editor for the Air Force Flight Safety Magazine
12. Inducted Mirage 2000 aircraft in 1985, after a 10-month training period.
13. Only pilot to induct 2 types of aircraft.
14. Fastest 1,000 hours on the Mirage 2000 in the world.
15. Edited all IAF Coffee Tables from 1990 to 1996.
16. Staff Officer to 2 Air Chiefs.
17. Edited all that they wrote, from important letters to newspaper releases, compliments to obituaries.
18. Did 3 months of flying cross-training in reunited Germany.
19. Commanded a Mirage 2000 Squadron.
20. Awarded Vayu Sena Medal in '93.
21. Only pilot to have fired a S-530D BVR missile; it cost as much as a Mig 21 Bis.
22. Base Cdr at that Station, with 15,000 heads.
23. 1st in Staff College Entrance exam.
24. Did Staff Course in UK.
25. Did my BBA in the UK (University of Reading).
26. Did AREA Course in Japan.
27. Post-retirement, joined a publishing firm, Contact Communications and started commercial journalism, both writing and editing.
28. Raised its Technical Magazine to a level where it was rated an excellent Asian Technical Magazine at IMB, Cologne.
29. Rated best Editor/Writer (English-Asia) at a/m IMB in 2006. 
30. Hired immediately by a leading global aerospace and air armament concern and worked with them till 2010. 
31. Freelance editor/writer background.  
32. Equally fluent in both UK and US English. 
33. Was Editor-in-Chief Cypriot Smart Media Group, Macs Marketing, with their own website macsads.com/ It is still to recover after the Corona pandemic.
34. Their website written by me still stands, https://4viptour.com/en

                                       

                                                  MORE INFORMAL DATA

Preliminary Data:

DIVERSE SKILLS

Ø  Intelligent, sharp, hard-working, focussed, punctual, work-oriented and a team player.

Ø  Invariably ranked first, since cadet days in 1967, in ALL courses undergone.

Ø  Professional Military Pilot with 33 years of experience in the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Ø Became Instrument Rating Examiner on MiG-21 aircraft.

Ø  Instructor in Flying and Flying-related subjects since 1980. Ranked 1st in the entry course.

Ø  Tested air/ground crew on Mirage-2000 aircraft as sole Air Force Examiner for 5 years.

Ø  Staff Officer to two Air Chiefs, the highest and most prestigious post in that rank (Lt. Col.).

Ø  Wrote over six speeches/obituaries/prefaces/messages/presentations, etc. for both daily, 6 days a week.

Ø  Specialist in editing and formatting mainly official letters and documents, as well as memos, minutes and reports.

Ø  Considerable HR experience, commanding a Flying Squadron and later as Base Commander at an airbase housing 15,000 bodies.

Ø   Awarded VM (DFC) 1993

Ø  Widely travelled, with 56 countries visited, before and after Service.

JOB-RELATED

Ø  Only pilot in the IAF to induct two new types of aircraft.

Ø  Fastest 1,000 hours on both types.

Ø  Wrote a Service Paper on gainful employment of Air Combat Missiles, another first.

Ø  Acclaimed specialist in Low-Intensity Conflict. Have written a thesis, unfortunately ‘classified’, on that subject.

Ø  Have appeared on radio talk shows on the Kashmir issue.

Ø  First writer on a new airflow control device. It has been included in the Aerodynamics  Syllabus for aircrew, as https:// noelsramblings.blogspot.com/ 2023/05/vortilons.html

Ø  First writer on Turning Theory, including FBW aircraft.

  

ACM SK MEHRA, CHIEF OF AIR STAFF CONGRATULATING ME ON CROSSING 1000 HOURS ON THE MIRAGE-2000

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Ø Master of Ceremonies at all types of occasions, including Ceremonial like Parades, Awards Functions, etc. Commentator at Field Hockey, Soccer and Tennis matches. Commentator at IAF Republic Day Flypasts for 12 years.

Ø Have absolute command over the English language and the nuances, inflexions and subtleties that differentiate the exceptional from the excellent (Nickname: Thesaurix).   

Ø In my spare time, taught the English language in a syllabus-oriented open forum for airmen. Gave one-on-one tuition to promising students.

Ø Quizmaster at Scindia School for a bi-annual all-India High School meet for 6 years

Ø Did my Masters in English Literature.

Ø An Indian native English speaker, I have done my education and over 95% of my work in Queen’s English.

Ø Equally at home in US English.

Ø Speech and Content writer of repute.

Ø After retirement, edited 3 trade magazines for 4 years -TrendFusion, StitchWorld and  ApparelOnline.

Ø Wrote Academic/Technical articles while editing and proofreading magazines, pamphlets, novels, novellas, academic & other non-fiction educational works, theses and website content.

Ø Responsible for the proofed content of the company's two websites.

Ø Specialist on the WTO, particularly on the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) and all restrictions thereunder(quotas); Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); the ISO 9000 family of quality control mechanisms; ILO’s SA 8000, etc.

Ø Founder member of StitchWorld International Forum of Technologists (SWIFT), which examined, amongst a host of other issues, what was amiss in Indian workplace ethics, motivation, HRM and the tricky issue of gender discrimination.

Ø Check out: http://www.stitchworld.net/display0.asp?msg=1121&cat=13 and http://www.stitchworld.net/display1.asp?msg=446&cat=TechEvents both written by me. I feature in one of the photographs in the latter.

Ø Have written ~9000 articles/blogs, edited over 50,000 articles and proofread over 75 million words in MS Word, the microscopic Adobe Pagemaker and the Highlighter/Sticky note method.

Ø Edited pamphlets, novels, novellas, academic & other non-fiction educational works.

Ø Did my Masters in Defence Science.

Ø My last job required me to write Military Aviation Concepts and White Papers for my employer and prepare Powerpoint Presentations for them. My contract expired in November 2012.

Ø Read speak and write German fluently.

Ø Taught Personal Finance at Sriram High School two hours a week. 

Ø Help non-native English speakers get exceptional grades.

 First Mirage-2000 landing on a highway

FAMILY DETAILS

Ø Married in 1979. My wife holds a Masters in Sociology and assists me if ever required.

Ø  Have a son, an MBA/BTech, working with Alvares & Marsal in Manhattan, NY, USA.

Ø  Have a daughter, who after 1½ years in the Hospitality Industry, two years with Kingfisher Airlines as an in-flight cabin assistant, is on Faculty in Sriram School, Gurgaon.

Ø  Both are married.

Congratulated by the Base Cdr on landing after crossing 1000 hrs on type

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REVIEW TIME

 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

1. If Poison expires; is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?

2. Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C?

3. Do Twins ever realise that one of them is "Unplanned"?

4. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?

5. Is Oxygen slowly killing you just that it takes 75-100 years to fully work?

6. Every time you clean something, are you just make something else dirty?

7. Why is the word "swims" upside-down still "swims"?

8. Did you know that 100 years ago everyone owned a Horse and only the rich had Cars? And that today everyone has Cars and only the rich own Horses?

9. How is it that when you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them?

Some Great Confusions Which Are Still Unresolved:

1. At a movie theatre, which arm rest is yours?

2. If people evolve from monkeys, why are monkeys still around?

3. Why is there a 'D' in fridge, but not in refrigerator?

4. Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made?

5. Ever wonder why the word "Funeral" starts with FUN?

6. Why isn't a Fireman called a Water-man?

7. How come Lipstick doesn't do what it says?

8. If Money doesn't grow on Trees, how come Banks have Branches?

9. If a Vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a Humanitarian eat?

10. How do you get off a non-stop Flight?

11. Why are goods sent by Ship called CARGO, and those sent by Truck SHIPMENT?

12. Why do we put cups in the "Dishwasher" and the dishes in the "Cupboard"?

13. Why do doctors "Practice" medicine? Are they having practice at the cost of the patients?

14. Why is it called "Rush Hour" when traffic moves at its slowest then?

15. How come Noses run and Feet smell?

16. Why do they call it a TV 'set' when there is only one?

17. What are you vacating when you go on a "Vacation"?

 PEARLS OF WISDOM

When I was born, I was given a choice - A big dick or a good memory. I don't remember, what I chose.

Your birth certificate is an apology letter from the condom factory.

A wife is a sex object. Every time you ask for sex, she objects.

Impotence: Nature's way of saying 'No hard feelings...'

There are only two four letter words that are offensive to men - 'don't' and 'stop', unless they are used together.

Panties: Not the best thing on earth, but next to the best thing on earth.

There are three stages of sex in a man's life: Tri Weekly, Try Weekly, and Try Weakly.

Virginity can be cured.

Virginity is not dignity, its lack of opportunity.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

I tried phone sex once, but the holes in the dialer were too small.

Marriage is the only war where you get to sleep with the enemy.

Q: What's an Australian kiss?  A: The same thing as a French kiss, only down under.

A couple just married were happy with the whole thing. He was happy with the Hole and she was happy with the Thing...

Q: What are the three biggest tragedies in a mans life? A: Life sucks, job sucks, and the wife doesn't.

Q: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact? A: Breasts don't have eyes.

Despite the old saying, ' Don't take your troubles to bed', many men still sleep with their wives!!

Breasts are proof that men can focus on two things at a time.

 DECENCY RE-PUNNED

I've started investing in stocks: beef, vegetable, chicken. One day I hope to be a bouillianaire.

I accidentally rubbed ketchup in my eyes. Now I have Heinzsight.

Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers, the big ones at the end of the wing are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.

I was walking in the jungle and saw a lizard on his hind legs telling jokes. I turned to a local tribal leader and said, "That lizard is really funny!" The leader replied, "That's not just any old lizard ... he's a stand-up chameleon."

I tried to come up with a carpentry pun that woodwork. I thought I nailed it but nobody saw it.

Singing in the shower is fine until you get soap in your mouth. Then it's a soap opera.

The Black-Eyed Peas can sing us a song but the chick peas can only hummus one.

Then there was the time Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court - it was a brief case.

How much does a chimney cost? Nothing, it's on the house.

My friend said she wouldn't eat a cow's tongue because it came out of a cow's mouth. I gave her an egg.

Once upon a time there was a King who was only 12 inches tall. He was a terrible King but he made a great ruler.

My friend Jack says he can communicate with vegetables. That's right ... Jack and the beans talk.

I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You probably have not heard of herbivore.

I was struggling to understand how lightning works and then it struck me.

Six cows were smoking joints and playing poker. That's right. The steaks were pretty high.

QUESTIONS

I miss times when I was working at the zoo. My boss fired me just because I left the lion's gate open. I mean who would steal a lion?

I was in a cab today and the cab driver said, "I love my job, I'm my own boss. Nobody tells me what to do.“ Then I said, "turn left".

Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get to the Pharmacy for their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?

Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and yet get a diet coke?

Why do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens on the counter tops?

Why do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in our driveways and put our useless junk in the garage?

Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors and attorneys call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavoring, and dish washing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called the rush hour?

Why do they sterilise the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff??

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains, whereas Sweaters of Wool, do?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

 

LINING UP PHOTOS IN BLOGGER

ALIGN PHOTOS IN BLOGGER: AN UPDATED GUIDE

The free blog posting system, Blogger, does not provide the latest in technology to help your blog prosper. It is a daunting task to make money from your blog on Blogger. Getting photos in a neat line or position is impossible unless you know / understand HTML. Paragraph spacing, font sizes, indents, etc., are next to impossible. I have written a tutorial on how to arrange photos in a neat line, not strewn around the post with only the size and area under your control. The only limiting factor here is that the total width of all photographs should not exceed 720 spaces. You can control the width of your space available for placing photographs by adjusting the required width using the spacing facility made available via your blog-spacing limits using the page monitor.

First get your pictures in order. Use MS Picture Manager or MS Paint to edit your pictures, crop them, recolour them, whatever. Try and keep the width to the minimum required. Having done so, create a new folder on your Desktop and copy/paste these pics in the new folder.

Open Blogger and create a NEW POST. Give it any title, XYZ....

Upload these pictures into the new post-they will appear one below the other. I will upload six pics. Their default height is MEDIUM 320 pts. You can see that for yourself by just going to the HTML mode top left. If you want smaller pics, use the cursor and click on each pic and reduce each pic to SMALL size. This will reduce their height to 200 pts as you can see in the first picture below. You can also resize them later by adjusting the blue envelope they get covered in when you click on the pics, after you finish your placements.

Now switch to the HTML mode and have a look. You will see data of the dimensions of the original picture, which was huge, and data for the edited picture. We are no longer interested in the original picture. This is the HTML for your first pic: 

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">

<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3IHcIsaQ3I8/ XjGTJJH6GFI/ AAAAAAAAIWE/ XThJF0neU4M7RPWwPOXJQRWZf0n-ESWaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/236207-big6yomg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinV0Jvpu8oAfriijUwEnC4bxqpPKn6ucMW4b88m6hH5A2wWbil0rTMl1Xanum56zxCkqOAiFjaEFz1DL_TMy3-lHuwlsK6Bs3XOjYeqJtMbcurpdSAT8-3AJ8rBski7L48E2NdLwm5X3Sr/s320/236207-big6yomg.jpg" width="82" /></a></div>

 
Let's move to the next part. You have need your pic data lodged in between and including the two segments highlighted in yellow. You can see the source of that pic also. "src". Six pictures have to be aligned. 

Copy/paste the code just below into the empty space below the last line of HTML:

<table>
<tbody>

 <tr>

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>  

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>  

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

Let's take one line apart, shall we?

<td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>

This line shows up three blank spaces, all within inverted commas (" "). It is asking for three parameters, image height, image source and image width. These are all available in the HTML code of that image. Easy!

As there are 6 pics, I have used 6 lines of placement code, starting/ending with (td,/td). In the first line, insert image height, 320, replacing xxx and image width 82 in place of the xx. Only the source of the image needs to be filled in the slot between the inverted commas where it says img src " ":

<td><img height="320"><img src="  " width="82" /></td> Note that I have retained the " " around the numbers. This is important.

Copy this bit of code from the src in the HTML: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinV0Jvpu8oAfriijUwEnC4bxqpPKn6ucMW4b88m6hH5A2wWbil0rTMl1Xanum56zxCkqOAiFjaEFz1DL_TMy3-lHuwlsK6Bs3XOjYeqJtMbcurpdSAT8-3AJ8rBski7L48E2NdLwm5X3Sr/s320/236207-big6yomg.jpg (starting with https and ending with jpg).

This is to be inserted in the <imgsrc=" " bit in the table. The completed line of coding will read like so, for the first pic.:

img height="320";img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3IHcIsaQ3I8/ XjGTJJH6GFI/ AAAAAAAAIWE/ XThJF0neU4M7RPWwPOXJQRWZf0n-ESWaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/236207-big6yomg.jpg" width="82"/></td>

Do this for each image, one by one.

There you go, six pics aligned neatly.

If you want to equalise or change the spacing, you can edit your pics in both the Compose mode and the HTML mode. The Compose mode is easier, unless you are comfortable with HTML. In the Compose mode, click on the 1st pic and you will see a black vertical line, as tall as the pic, appear to its left. Use the → tab and move it to the second pic. Just use the space tab on your keyboard to move that image, or the → tab to cross over to the next pic, or whichever. Just make sure you don’t drop the last pic to the next line. If you do drop the pic, just hit the return arrow. Space the 1st image last of all. In the HTML mode, you have to type in the code for one space, starting with an ampersand, using the letters nbsp and ending with a semicolon where you want to get one space. In fact, when you use the Compose mode and tap the keyboard to space out the pics, you are actually adding that code in the HTML, once per tap. Check it out by going over to the HTML mode. REMEMBER to hit the Update button once you are done.

Let's say you want to add a seventh picture. First, go to HTML and insert this line below the six pics: <td><img height="xxx"><img src="  " width="xx" /></td>

Make sure it is above the closing tags of /tr/tbody/table. Let's say you want to insert the image below:

                 

The least cluttered method is to first save this work, or publish it and on the control panel/list of blog posts, select it and click Revert to draft, a temporary measure. Now open a NEW post and title it xyz or whatever. Upload the seventh pic into this post. Go to HTML and note its height and width. It will be 320 and 78-83 or thereabouts. Copy the url. Return to your original post and publish it to take it out of the draft mode. Add the data of the seventh pic in that seventh line as always. The height, width and the url go into their slots. The seventh pic will appear. 

Go back to the Compose mode and remove the downloaded pictures by simply clicking on them and selecting the 'remove' option. Finally, click on update and voila...

If you want to line up 10 bottles in a section, you will have to reduce their size to less than 200 height. 150 will do nicely. Since you have shortened the height by 150/200, i.e. to 75%, reduce the width of each bottle to 75%.

Don't forget to delete that small NEW post, xyz or whatever!

What if you do not get the width in the HTML code?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">

<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3IHcIsaQ3I8/ XjGTJJH6GFI/ AAAAAAAAIWE/ XThJF0neU4M7RPWwPOXJQRWZf0n-ESWaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/236207-big6yomg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinV0Jvpu8oAfriijUwEnC4bxqpPKn6ucMW4b88m6hH5A2wWbil0rTMl1Xanum56zxCkqOAiFjaEFz1DL_TMy3-lHuwlsK6Bs3XOjYeqJtMbcurpdSAT8-3AJ8rBski7L48E2NdLwm5X3Sr/s320/236207-big6yomg.jpg" /></a></div>

Simple. Just calculate it as follows:

Height 320/original height 1600 x original width 414.

320      x      414  =  82.8 or 83.

1600