On 17th Dec 1903, an aircraft trust into the skies and became (so called) the first aircraft I the human history. Wright Brothers became its inventors. We all greatly adore them today and we reach this fact to our children in schools. But to our surprise the truth seems to be different.
Eight years before Wright brother's aerial show in India in 1895, at the chowpatty beach in Bombay, an aircraft flew in the skies up to 1,500 ft, when a large Indian audience watched this feat. And this performance happened in the august presence of his highness Maharaja of Baroda,shri sayaji Rao Gaikwad and honorable judge Mahadev Govind Ranade. This event was
covered and published by the then popular newspaper “Kesari” which was published from Pune.
The inventor of that aircraft was an ordinary Sanskrit scholar, named “Shivkar Bapuji Thalapade.”
The name of this aircraft was “Maruthi Shakti”. This aircraft had been built based on the technology mentioned in Sanskrit Text written by “Bhardwaj'' called “yantra sarvasvam”. Talapade adopted the technology from the chapters of “Vaimanika sastra” of Bharadwaja’s book.
Then british government, after strictly warning the Baroda Maharaj not fund the project, stalled this experiment. In seems that experimental remnants of the plane and various working plans had been taken over by the british government. (Source: Deccan herald, Tuesday Dec 16,2003)
Did our ancestors have much advanced knowledge about aircrafts? If so, what happened to all
that? Why has such an advanced knowledge been kept as a secret? What is the vaimanika shastra of Bharadwaj? What are the contents? Whether modern scientists did any research on this contents? If so, what are their findings in this regard?