{"id":55,"date":"2011-02-10T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=55"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:45:49","slug":"this-maruti-too-can-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"This Maruti too can fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: Maruti 800s are no more in production. But it serves as a nice guinea pig for experiments. That is exactly what A K Vishwanath did with the aam aadmi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car of the 1980s.<br \/>\nAn array of metal birds from all over the world at the Aero India show at the airport was facing tough competition for eyeballs from a mere Maruti 800.<br \/>\nThe car has been modified with some strange contraptions by a Bangalorean into a flying machine; it was fitted with wings and a hood for each of the wheels.<br \/>\nSpeaking to Bangalore Mirror, A K Vishwanath, the innovator, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The idea is to ensure a car the common man can drive and fly safely. I came back from the US to work on the project and have spent 17 years working on it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThough the Director General Civil Aviation has not given clearance for flying the car, numbered KA 09 N 2920, its mere presence at Aero India has given wing to Vishwanath\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream project.<br \/>\nVishwanath has tried to create an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcartificial tornado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 which will provide thrust to his creation. He has provided four modes for the car: vertical takeoff and landing, cruise speed, hover mode and emergency float mode. The car is yet to be flight-tested, but the innovator is sure the flying machine is theoretically perfect.<br \/>\n10\/02\/11 B<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangaloremirror.com\/article\/10\/2011021020110210005719578bb64dc8b\/This-Maruti-too-can-fly-.html\" target=\"_blank\">angalore Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: Maruti 800s are no more in production. But it serves as a nice guinea pig for experiments. That is exactly what A K Vishwanath did with the aam aadmi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car of the 1980s. An array of metal birds from all over the world at the Aero India show at the airport was facing tough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flying-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}