Shivkar talpade biography of rory
Shivkar talpade biography of rory
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Shivkar Bapuji Talpade
Indian aviation enthusiast
Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade(pronunciationⓘ) was an Indian instructor with an interest in Sanskrit and aviation.
He lived in Mumbai, and is claimed to have constructed and flown an unmanned, heavier-than-air aircraft in Contemporary accounts of a successful flight do not exist, and no reliable historical records document its existence.[1][2][3]Pseudo-historical narratives about Talpade proliferated in India in the early s among adherents of the Hindu-nationalistright-wing.
These included the false claim that Talpade had "invented the modern aircraft".[4][2][1][3]
Talpade's aircraft
Talpade is claimed to have constructed an unmanned, heavier-than-air aircraft, named Marutsakhā ("friend of the air"), and flown it above Bombay's Chowpatty Beach in [1][2] Contemporary accounts of a successful flight do not exist, and no reliable historical r