Wings of India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789360166298)

"The great civilization of India, which is known as Hindu culture, has

contributed a lot in the field of science. This shows that they never promoted

superstition, nor did the people remain undeveloped and ignorant. Aeronautical

science in the twenty-first century is difficult and complex. In manufacturing an

aircraft, each and every part of the aircraft has to be carefully tested and evaluated.

Material selection, aerofoil selection, weight of the aircraft, thrust required etc.

These factors have an impact in the manufacturing of aircraft. Many things were

practiced repeatedly in Indian ancient aviation. They have told the material selection

making vimana, the instruments used in vimana, the technique of making

instruments, the weapons of the enemy vimana, the electric power that runs the

vimana, the electric wire and the cover of the wire. This is surprising. I think we

should try to study the Indian ancient culture once again. Maybe we can learn

something from this. We may not be able to understand those techniques but we

can definitely get new ideas to make things easier."