Vedic sage invented airplane, says UP guv
Hindustan Times Amritsar|December 27, 2024
It was not the Wright Brothers but an Indian sage who invented flying, Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel said on Thursday, igniting a controversy involving facts and history as the former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader sought new education to students over these aspects.
- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW:

"Students should be told about how Wright Brothers are being wrongly credited for developing an airplane," Patel declared during her first media interaction after completing five years in office.

She asserted that ancient sage Maharishi Bharadwaj developed aviation technology first — a claim that contradicts records of Orville and Wilbur Wright having achieved the first sustained, controlled, powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

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