Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade (1864–1916) was a Maharashtrian Pathare prabhu community member who flew an unmanned airplane, named Marutsakhā ("Marut-Air or Stream of Air, Sakha Friend", said of Sarasvati in RV 7.96.2), in the year 1895, which was 8 years before Wright brothers (the first unmanned heavier-than-air flight was John Stringfellow's in 1848). Talpade stayed at Dukkar Wādi (now renamed Vijay Wādi), Chirā Bazār, Mumbai (Bombay). He was a scholar in Sanskrit literature and Vedas and from pictures of these type of vedas,he made the first airplane in the world! You can guess how brilliant he was!!
According to a study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Talpade constructed his models under the guidance of Pandit Subbarāya Shāstry, the author of Vaimānika Shāstra,Mukunda, H.S.; Deshpande, S.M., Nagendra, H.R., Prabhu, A. and Govindraju, S.P. (1974). "A critical study of the work "Vyamanika Shastra"". Scientific Opinion: 5–12. http://cgpl.iisc.ernet.in/site/Portals/0/Publications/ReferedJournal/ACriticalStudyOfTheWorkVaimanikaShastra.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-03.</ref> The Times of India, in a 2004 article, quotes former principal defence scientific officer, D. H. Bedekar, as saying that, "Mr .[2] The article also references Velkar (1997), which quotes one of Talpade's students, P. Satwelkar, as saying that "the unmanned plane flew a few minutes and came down."
Velkar (1997) reports that Talpade studied the achievements of aviation pioneers like Hiram Maxim and "[Thomas] Alva Edison who flew in a balloon and survived a mishap in 1880". Velkar quotes one of Talpade's nieces, Roshan Talpade, as saying the family used to sit in the aircraft's frame and imagine they were flying. A model reconstruction of 'Marutsakha' was exhibited at an exhibition on aviation at Vile Pārle, and Velkar refers to "some documents relating to the experiment" preserved at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore. Talpade made an appeal for funds for further experiments at a public meeting in Ahmedabad with success[2]
So why the airplane
inventor is not Mr. Talpade?
Actually, airplane of Mr.Talapade was made earlier
than Wright brothers! But his country , India, didn’t believe that anything
which is heavier than air can fly in the air.. So, anyone of his region didn’t
support him. But in case of Wright brothers, their government supported them
when they completed their first public show!
And the amazing thing is, the structure of Wright
brother’s airplane was so much similar to the Mr. Talpade’s Marutsakha!!
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