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Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, the Indian who made the first unmanned aeroplane but failed to make it fly

New Delhi: The 18th and 19th centuries were the period of inventions and two attempts got recorded into the annals of aviation history. One was Alberto Santos-Dumont of Brazil, who flew the first dirigible on



Former  principal defence scientific officer, D. H. Bedekar said, “Mr Talpade's plane for some technical reasons failed to operate to its full design limits”.



One of Talpade's students, P. Satwelkar, said  “the unmanned plane flew a few minutes and came down.”

After the failed experiment, Marutsakhā apparently was stored at Talpade's house until well after his death.

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