Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, the first flight engineer?
By Prachi Kanu Shri, Research Scholar in Semiconductor Industry and Ancient Indian Sciences. Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, an Indian instructor, claimed to have built an unmanned aircraft called Marutsakha, inspired by ancient Vedic texts. In 1895, he supposedly flew it on Chowpatty Beach in Mumbai, reaching a considerable height before crashing.Continue Reading