United is in deep doodoo for having a medical doctor who’s Asian of origin summarily knocked unconscious and then dragged backwards off the airliner. United in blood, two overtrained blackshirts drag an unconscious 69 year-old Dr Dao off a domestic airliner just because he was naughty. After you step aboard, any attempt by the airline to remove you unless you’re drunk or refusing to listen when you’re told to stop smoking or reading your Kindle is tantamount to abuse, crass stupidity and in Mr David Dao’s case, apparent assault with a deadly weapon, intimidation, libel, defamation and wanton brand suicide. Legally at that point airlines can force you off, but if your disabled daughter is waiting at home and in danger that can be a very stupid thing for an airline lackey to do. It’s up to the airline to find someone who is motivated by the cash. For $800 and a free hotel stay would you mind stepping aside for this nice captain to make his way to St Louis (this being Chicago) so that he can fly another plane from there with 80 passengers.”īy the way, you can still say no. Then when you present your ticket for final boarding, you were told “Sorry your seat is double booked. Previously the worse case scenario would be some ground crew lackey perusing a list of passengers along with a manager would pick out those likely to be least likely to sue after discovering the flight was overbooked. So its a dependency that leads to shareholder value and profits while negative moments occur where citizens interact with airline trolls in the form of rank and file staff suffering from delusions of grandeur. We are squeezed more and more tightly into the machines that are now indispensable to modern life because we have become dependent on being whisked from A to B ASAP. This latest insult to pax global is not just a miasmic foolhardy disaster for United Airlines, its symbolic. Now we have Chicago police goons knocking out 69 year-old passengers to remove them after an airline booking error. When aviation was the stuff of class and happiness, where handsome lads and equally handsome lasses leapt into machines of loving grace and invited others to join. Ĭoming from a racing background and filled with a desire to push the boundaries, TVS has been at the forefront of innovating new technologies for two-wheelers, and will likely continue to do so in the future as well.United parading Vets it didn’t beat up and throw off their plane. And very recently, TVS Motors also launched their first electric scooter - the iQube. On the motorsport front, they also tied up with France-based Sherco to form the TVS Sherco Rally team to take on the Dakar Rally. In recent years, TVS has collaborated with BMW Motorrad to develop and produce the BMW G 310 R and G 310 GS, and the same platform also spawned TVS’ current flagship motorcycle, the Apache RR 310. They gave us India’s first fully indigenously made gearless scooter in the form of the Scooty, India’s first bike with digital ignition - the Champ and of course the Apache RTR - the first Indian-made bike with ABS. Thanks to an extensive interest in and history with racing, TVS was able to infuse a lot of technological firsts in the bikes they built in the proceeding years. When this collaboration came to an end in 2001, all the TVS Suzuki bikes would come under the umbrella of TVS Motors. Many of the two-strokes that TVS-Suzuki produced also saw a lot of success in motocross racing. In this time, the company also took to the nascent motorcycle racing scene in India with a hopped up version of the TVS 50 which was capable of hitting 105kmph. In 1982, Sundaram Clayton tied up Suzuki from Japan to start producing two -stroke motorcycles, most of which, like the Supra, Samurai, Shogun, and Shaolin found quite some acclaim in the Indian market. It was much later in 1978 that the company would venture into producing mopeds out of their plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, and in 1980, they produced India’s first 2-seat moped, the TVS 50. After he passed away, his sons took over, and in 1962, joined hands with a UK based company to form Sundaram Clayton in a bid to produce automotive components such as motorcycle brakes, compressors, etc. Sundaram Iyengar (where TVS gets its name from) started a bus service company in Delhi called Sundaram Iyengar and Sons Limited. Many might not know this, but the origins of TVS go all the way back to 1911, when its founder T.V.
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