Posted on 11/05/2017 6:24:17 AM PST by BobL
Seven years ago, Amol Yadav announced to his family and friends that he would build an aeroplane on the roof of a boxy apartment building in the teeming Indian city of Mumbai.
Incredulous friends and family members asked the young pilot how he planned to bring the plane down once it was complete.
"I really don't know," he told them.
Mr Yadav, who flies twin-engine turboprop planes for a living, is nothing if not obstinate.
The five-storey building, home to his 19-member joint family, didn't have a lift, so they lugged factory lathes, compressors, welding machines, and an imported 180kg (396lb) engine up the narrow stairwell to the roof.
Braving sticky summers and torrential monsoon rains, Mr Yadav and his motley crew - an automobile garage mechanic and an expert fabricator - worked under a tarp shed on the unkempt 111.5 sq m (1,200 sq ft) roof, less than half the size of a tennis court.
In February last year, his six-seater propeller plane was ready.
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JATO
Wiley Coyote sets the pace.
lol
A neighbor just finished building an airplane in his basement. Same basic problem.
A testament to human will and determination. Awesome! Compliments.
Harder to do in the real world, though!
I was trying to figure out how he’d get the plane delivered. I figured a helicopter with a sling, but since he had no support or resources for that, sending it down in pieces on a winch was brilliant.
“A neighbor just finished building an airplane in his basement. Same basic problem.”
Yuck...and he doesn’t have gravity working in his favor, like this Indian chap did.
It sounds like he can’t get govt. permission to flight test the plane, yet he’s now trying to build a 19 passenger plane. I give him credit for effort, but seems like he’s wasting a lot of time and Money on this. His propeller looks too small & plane not very aerodynamic either.
He shoulda had the winch to get his equipment up to the roof ilo using the stairs.
Unfortunately, none of his planes have ever flown.
Indian bureaucracy is intricate, corrupt, and is nearly impenetrable without paying lots of bribes and/or having powerful connections.
Impressive, but I still ain’t flyin’ in it.
“”A neighbor just finished building an airplane in his basement. Same basic problem.””
Now THAT would beg the question - should that person even be allowed NEAR an airplane?
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