Anytime the topic of Indian vedic science comes up, there's always that one guy who mentions something about the 'Vyamanika Shastra', a Hindu book that told people how to make planes. Damn, we literally had a 'shastra' for planes - of course we were a science superpower. That is until you actually analyse the shastra and try to make a damn plane from it. We went through this detailed debunking of our high flying mythology by the fine folks at the Indian Institute of Science.

Even the Ramayana and Mahabharata don't actually mention aircrafts.

There is 'Pushpak Vimana’, which could only fly with "mantras’ or ‘tantras’.

If you design a plane using the specifications mentioned, it is not going to fly.

Here's when the Indian Institute of Science really shines: