In 1965, the song about "Air Adventures" from a comedy about a fictional 1910 aviation competition for flights from London to Paris gained world fame.
The first inventors and pilots, who dreamed that people could fly freely, made many fatal mistakes, but their perseverance and faith led to the creation of modern aviation and aerospace technologies that opened the sky to both civilians and the military.
The first eight aircraft, in fact, could not even get off the ground or were in the sky for a matter of minutes. A breakthrough in aviation was made by the French Marquise of 1908.
1. China's Ancient Flying Machines - Kites, 500 B.C.
Kite, China. 500 BCIn China, ancient aircraft such as kites were used. It was intended for military surveillance, as well as to search for wandering soldiers and escaped prisoners. The Chinese general Kung Shu-Pang, a contemporary of Confucius, who lived in the 6th-5th centuries BC, "climbed a mountain with a wooden kite in order to inspect the city he planned to capture." The design of the kite in ancient times allowed him to soar in the air for three nights and three days.
In 1282, the Venetian traveler Marco Polo wrote that he saw in the seaport how the authorities tied slaves to a kite with a belt. So they determine the direction of the wind and the best time for ships to set sails.
Kites were used for military purposes until the invention of balloons and airships.
Sumuel Franklin Cody, the founder of the Wild West aviation, made rides with powerful kites. Several people per device, in the form of a large bat with wings and a reinforced box for passengers, were launched into the sky and hovered above the ground at a height of several hundred meters.
Kites were also used by Britain during the Boer War in South Africa in the 1890s. The military used kites designed by Cody in 1906 until they were replaced by balloons and flying machines during the First World War.
2. Flying kite Burattini, 1647
Flying kite Burattini The Italian inventor and scientist Tito Burattini demonstrated a model of a flying glider called the "Dragon Volant" at the court of the King of Poland in Warsaw in 1647. From the surviving descriptions and drawings of the device, it can be seen that it was made of fabric and paper stretched over a wooden frame. Four flapping wings were controlled by springs.
In 1648 Burattini launched the Dragon Volant once again, this time with a cat on board. It was the first experiment used by American astronauts in the Russian space programs of the 20th century to send animals into the air.
Burattini failed to convince the king of the need to finance a full-scale version of the aircraft. The inventor was sure that "only temporary difficulties" did not allow his mechanical dragon to fully lift off the ground.
Several inventors had thought about the idea of a parachute long before Leonardo da Vinci. In the 15th century, he designed a pyramid-shaped parachute and said that this device would allow a person to jump from a height and not get any injuries.
3. Parachute Faust Vrancici, 1595
First parachute In 1595, the Croatian inventor Faust Vrancic published the Homo Volance or "flying man" project. He created a parachute based on the design of a ship's sail with material stretched over a square wooden frame and reinforced with ropes.
History knows other crazy experiments with flying. December 26, 1783 French inventor and scientist Louis Sebastien Lenormand made a parachute similar to the modern one. He managed to land successfully after jumping from the tower of the Montpellier Observatory.
Lenormand believed that his invention could be used in emergency situations, which would prevent people from falling uncontrollably from the upper floors of buildings in the event of a fire. He reached the ground safely, descending from a height of 25 m using a 4.3 m parachute with a wooden frame made of spokes. The device looked like an umbrella covered in silk.
In front of the observatory, the work of balloonist Joseph Montgoliier, who made the first manned balloon flight with his brother Étienne, a few months before this event in the same year, was demonstrated.
4 Solomon Andrews' airship, 1862
Airship Solomon Andrews' first American airship first flew over Rent Amba in New Jersey in 1862. Four years later, in 1866, he flew over New York at Oyster Bay. Andrews wrote to President Abraham Lincoln about the possibility of Aeron being used for military purposes. The government showed great interest in this idea.
The device had no engines, and used wing-like connections and vane steering to control altitude, speed, and direction of flight. The inventor explained that the aircraft "glided under the influence of gravity."
Andrews' ideas later inspired the creation of the airship. According to his design, the Airlander Hybrid Air Vehicle was made.
5. Manned glider by Jean Maury Le Bris, 1856
L'Albatros Artificiel French inventor Jean-Marie Le Bris was so inspired that he built an elegant manned glider. He studied the anatomy of birds and the phenomenon of lift created by wings. Hoping to take off, Le Bris built the L'Albatros Artificiel aircraft.
In 1856, Le Bris successfully flew his "Artificial Albatross" over the beach of Sainte-Anne-la-Palud near the extreme eastern point of France. The aircraft was towed by a horse harnessed to a cart, which made it possible to develop a speed of 100 km/h. The device flew 200 m and reached the altitude record.
In 1868, Le Bris experimented by building wings for a glider, a principle used in modern aircraft designs. The first photographs of the device were taken in Brest.
6. Thomas Moe's helicopter, 1875
Air Steamer In 1875, Thomas Mow successfully took off in an Aerial Steamer, a 3 hp steam engine driven by large twin propellers. The plane weighed almost 100 kg and was only 15 cm off the ground.
7. Helicopter Paul Cornu
The French aviation pioneer Paul Cornu made his first free flight on November 9, 1907. A primitive two-engine helicopter made it possible to take off, the 24-horsepower engine was sandwiched between the pilot's knees.
Ancient aircraft were made in Egypt. The basic technical requirements for the aerodynamics of modern aviation were laid down in the bird model, the scientists found out.
Aircraft of ancient civilizations video:
Vimana- an aircraft, the descriptions of which are found in ancient scriptures, for example, in the Vimanika Shastra. These devices could move both in the earth's atmosphere and in space and the atmosphere of other planets. Vimanas were activated both with the help of mantras (spells) and with the help of mechanical devices.
Waitmara landed on the mainland, which was called by star travelers Daaria - the Gift of the Gods. Wightman- a small flying chariot. Wightman is carried by the second type of ships - Vimana.
On Whitemar there were representatives of four peoples of the allied Lands of the Great Race: Aryan clans - Kharians, in other words, da Aryans; The clans of the Slavs - Rassen and Svyatorus. DaAryans acted as pilots with the exception of piccolo. Vaitmara landed on the mainland, which was named Daaria by the star travelers - a gift of the Gods, brush-like. The Kharians carried out space navigation work.
Whitemars are large Celestial vehicles capable of laying up to 144 Whitemans in their womb. The whole vimana itself is a reconnaissance ship.
All Slavic-Aryan Gods and Goddesses have their own whitemans and whitemars, corresponding to their spiritual abilities. In modern terms, the Skyships of our Ancestors are biological robots that have a certain degree of awareness and the ability to transfer them both inside the worlds of Navi, Reveal and Slavi, and from one world to another. In different worlds, they take on different forms and have different properties necessary to fulfill their purpose. For example, God Vyshen repeatedly flew to the people of the Earth on a Whiteman, which has the shape of a huge eagle, and God Svarog (whom the Hindu Brahmins call Brahma) - on a Whiteman in the form of a beautiful swan.
But this is called the "Vimana of the Goddess." There is a striking similarity: a human cocoon - a pyramid - a vimana - a pepelats.
Apparently, it is not for nothing that they say that vimanas are alive, because it turns out that they are made according to the energy image of a person. And if so, then a person should be able to fly without vimana!
From the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian poem of unusual length, we learn that someone named Asura Maya possessed a vimana about 6 m in circumference, equipped with four strong wings. This poem is a treasure trove of information pertaining to conflicts between the gods, who resolved their differences using tools apparently as deadly as those we can use. In addition to "bright missiles", the poem describes the use of other deadly weapons. The "Dart of Indra" is operated with the help of a round "reflector". When turned on, it releases a beam of light that, when focused on any target, immediately "devours it with its power". In one particular case, when the hero, Krishna, was chasing his enemy, Shalva, in the sky, Saubha made Shalva's vimana invisible. Undeterred, Krishna immediately uses a special weapon: "I quickly put in an arrow that killed by looking for a sound."
And many other types of terrible weapons are described quite reliably in the Mahabharata, but the most terrible of them was used against the Vrish. The narration says:
"Gurkha, flying on his fast and powerful vimana, threw the only projectile charged with all the power of the Universe at the three cities of Vrishi and Andhak. A red-hot column of smoke and fire, bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor. It was an unknown weapon, Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death that reduced the entire race of Vrishis and Andhakas to ashes."
It is important to note that records of this kind are not isolated. They correlate with similar information from other ancient civilizations. The aftermath of this iron lightning's effect contains an ominously recognizable ring. Apparently, those who were killed by her were burned so that their bodies were not recognizable. The survivors lasted a little longer and their hair and nails fell out.
Perhaps most impressively and provocatively, some of the ancient records of these supposedly mythical vimanas tell how to build them. The instructions are pretty detailed. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara it is written:
"The body of the vimana should be made strong and durable, like a huge bird made of light material. Inside, a mercury engine should be placed with its iron heating apparatus under it. With the help of the force hidden in mercury, which sets the leading tornado in motion, the person sitting inside can travel long distances across the sky. The motions of the vimana are such that it can ascend vertically, descend vertically, and move obliquely forward and backward. By means of these machines, human beings can rise into the air and celestial beings can descend to earth."
Khaqafa (laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: "The privilege of flying a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient in our heritage. A gift from 'those above'. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives."
Even more fantastic is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, Siphral, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on the construction of a flying machine. It contains words that translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angle designs.
The valixes of the Aryans were called "vaitmana", and those that contained and transported several viitmans were called "vaitmara".
There is an opinion that this picture shows an Indian Waitmara:
Unfortunately, vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for military purposes. The Atlanteans used their flying machines, "wailixi", a similar type of craft, in an attempt to conquer the world, according to Indian texts. The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in Indian scriptures, appear to have been even more technologically advanced than the Indians, and certainly more of a warlike temperament. Although no ancient texts about the Atlantean Wailixi are known to exist, some information comes from esoteric, occult sources describing their aircraft.
The rise of the vimana into the air was carried out with the help of the secret energy of sound. The pilot underwent serious training before he was allowed to operate the controls.
Similar to, but not identical to, vimanas, vailixi were typically cigar-shaped and were capable of maneuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere and even in outer space. Other devices, like vimanas, were in the form of saucers and, apparently, could also dive. According to Eklal Kueshana, author of The Ultimate Frontier, the wailixi, he writes in a 1966 article, were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common were "saucer-shaped and usually trapezoidal in section with three hemispherical engine cases underneath. They used a mechanical anti-gravity unit powered by engines producing approximately 80,000 horsepower." The Ramayana, the Mahabharata and other texts speak of a hideous war that took place about 10 or 12 thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama and was fought with weapons of destruction that readers could not imagine until the second half of the 20th century.
What's more, in Mohenjo-daro, a beautifully gridded city with running water superior to that used in Pakistan and India today, the streets were littered with "black pieces of glass." It turned out that these round pieces were earthenware pots that had melted from intense heat! With the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the destruction of the kingdom of Rama by atomic weapons, the world slipped into the "Stone Age". ...
This is a fragment of the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit text "Prajnaparamita Sutra" dating from the 10th century and kept in a Japanese museum. The vimanas that you see in the lower right corner surprisingly resemble modern UFOs.
Angels flying in the sky, fragment of the "Crucifixion" fresco from the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo, Yugoslavia (the fresco was created around 1350).
The ancients had similar technologies... or it's just fiction, it's up to you.
Whitemans, Whitemars, Wimans...
Vimanas
Vimanas are far from a fictional fiction, but a real fact of the existence of high-tech vehicles. Considering modern progress from the perspective of flying vehicles, one can to some extent come to the conclusion that mankind has achieved certain high results. We have learned to fly in the air. We have learned how to transport large loads by air. A man was sent into outer space. From the standpoint of modern man, all this looks like progress.
Vimanika shastra
But in addition to this position, there is always a position of the past tense, from which the point of view changes dramatically. In one of the holy temples of India, in 1875, a treatise "Vimanika Shastra" was found, written in the 4th century BC. e., Bharadvaji. The treatise was written on the basis of even earlier texts. In the treatise, various aircraft, called vimanas, were presented, their characteristics exceeding our aircraft by millions of times. Scientists received detailed information about how they are arranged, the principles of their functioning. The book contained descriptions of numerous devices that performed the functions of a camera, radar, searchlight and used, in particular, solar energy. In addition, there were descriptions of various powerful weapons. The treatise described not only ultra-fast, super-strong types of aircraft, but also described how a pilot should act, how to dress, how to eat, in order for the vimana to function like an aircraft.
By switching various kinds of switches, the vimanas could expand or contract, rotate around an axis, modify their shape during flight: form into a cloud for masking; radiate a powerful radiance or form complete darkness around itself; absorb the sun's rays and become invisible; dive into the water; reproduce force capable of paralyzing animals and people; receive on their screens an image of what is happening at an impressive distance.
1. The first category of vimanas is mana-javana. Manna means mind, javana means speed. That is, these are aircraft moving at the speed of the mind.
2. Capoto-waya. Capoto translates as dove, vaia translates as air, they were bird-like aircraft that had wings attached. The flight was carried out by means of air currents, using a special engine. The peculiarity of the apparatus is that it was completely silent and could move over enormous distances.
3. Akashic Patana. Akasha means ether, Patana means corridor. Those. these are the vimanas that moved through the ethereal corridors. Such ships could visit any point of the universe and naturally they required a certain level of consciousness, both of the pilot and those who knew how to build such a vimana. The speed in the ether is hundreds of millions of times greater than the speed of light.
4. Tripurari- These are large flying ships, consisting of three levels. Tri translates as three levels, pura means city. Three large cities intervened in it, in addition, hundreds of thousands of small vimanas were located in it.
5. Hiranya-pura. These are very large vimanas, flying cities, which were based on gold. Their movement speed was simply stunning (faster than aether) due to the kind of energy that this gold gave off.
6. Pushpa Vimana. Pushpa translates as flowers. Vimanas were made from floral materials.
7. Para-vaikuntha-vimana. This is a special type of aircraft. With their help, a living being was able to overcome the shells of the material universe and penetrate into the spiritual world for a very short time, since high spiritual vibrations would destroy the material properties.
The treatise Vimanika Shatsra provides information on the proper operation of aircraft. Warnings and regulations during long-term flights, protection of aircraft from lightning and storms. Describes how to switch a solar-powered engine to another type of energy. But besides this treatise, there are a number of works in Sanskrit that also let us know that these aircraft took place. This is also Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto Ten, Bhagavad Gita, Vimana Griha. The Vedas contain a wide amount of information on the subject of aircraft. If we consider non-Vedic works, then the vimana is even found in the work of Plato, which describes Atlantis. To date, numerous vimanas have been found all over the world, but scientists still do not know how to put them into action. Information is constantly leaking on the Internet that an inexplicable aircraft has been found somewhere - this is Japan, Siberia, the USA and many other countries.
It must be admitted that many researchers of the UFO mystery ignore one very important fact. While most flying saucers are believed to have originated in extraterrestrial civilizations and government military programs, ancient India and Atlantis may be another possible source. What we know about the flying objects of ancient India, we learned from the recorded ancient Indian sources that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these sources are authentic. Among them is the well-known to the world Epic of India, consisting of hundreds of epic works, most of which are still not even translated from Sanskrit into English.
The Indian Emperor Ashoka (273 BC-232 BC) founded the "Secret Society of Nine Unknown People", which consisted of the great scientists of India, who were to catalog and describe the basic sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he feared that the achievements of science, described by these people on the basis of ancient Indian sources, would be used for destructive purposes of war. Ashoka became an ardent opponent of wars and converted to Buddhism after he defeated an enemy army in a bloody battle.
The members of the Nine Unknown People Society have written a total of nine books. One of them was the book "Secrets of Gravity", it is known to historians, although none of them have ever seen it, and this book mainly talked about "gravity control". Perhaps this book is still kept somewhere in the secret library of India, Tibet, or somewhere else, maybe even in North America. Believing in the possibility of the existence of this book, of course, one can understand the reason why Ashoka wanted to keep such knowledge a secret. Imagine what could have happened if the Nazis had had this knowledge during World War II. Ashoka was aware of the devastating effect of such high-tech aircraft and other "futuristic weapons" being used in the wars that destroyed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire" millennia ago.
Just a few years ago, the Chinese discovered documents written in Sanskrit in Lhasa (Tibet) and sent them to the University of Chandigarh (India) for translation. The doctor of this University, Ruth Reina, recently stated that these documents contain instructions for building interstellar spacecraft.
She said that their movement in space was based on the principle of "anti-gravity" using a system similar to the "lagima" system, an unknown internal force that exists in the human physiological structure, some kind of "centrifuge force powerful enough to neutralize the gravitational pull" . According to Indian yogis, it is “lagima” that gives a person the possibility of levitation.
Dr. Reyna said that according to the documents found, aboard such machines, called "Astras" in the text, the ancient Indians were able to send a detachment of people to any planet. It was reported that the secret of the “antima” or “cap of invisibility” was also revealed in the manuscripts, the “garima” was described, i.e. then, "how to become heavy, like a mountain of lead."
Naturally, modern scholars did not take these texts seriously, but still reacted more positively to their value when the Chinese announced that they included the study of a certain part of these ancient manuscripts in their space program! This was one of the first examples of government recognition of the need to study anti-gravity.
The manuscripts do not clearly state that interplanetary flights were ever made, but they mention, among other things, a planned flight to the moon, although it is not clear from the text whether that flight was made or not. However, in the great Indian Epic, the Ramayana, there is a detailed description of the flight to the moon at the Vimana, or "Astra", as well as the battle on the moon with the "Asvin", the airship of Atlantis.
I have given only small confirmations that have appeared recently about the use of anti-gravity and aerospace technology, 
used in ancient India. In order to fully understand this technology, we need to turn to the times most distant from us.
The so-called "Rama Empire" of North India and Pakistan developed at least fifteen thousand years ago in the Indian sub-continent. It was a nation composed of the inhabitants of numerous large cities, many of which are still found in the deserts of Pakistan and Northern and Western India. The civilization of Rama actually existed, obviously, it was located at the time of the civilization of the Atlanteans somewhere in the middle of the ocean, known to us as the Atlantic. It was ruled by "enlightened Priest-Kings". The seven greatest chief cities of Rama were known in the classical texts of the Hindus as the "Seven Cities of the Rishis".
According to ancient Indian texts, people had flying machines called "Vimanas". The Indian epic says that they were round aircraft, they had two decks and a tower with loopholes, the overall picture resembles the appearance of a flying saucer. They flew at the speed of the wind, while a "melodious sound" was heard. The epic describes at least four different types of Vimans: some were saucer-shaped, others were long cylinders (cigar-shaped flying machines). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are numerous, they can only be described in many huge volumes. The ancient Indians who made these airships themselves wrote handbooks on the operation of various types of machines, and many such handbooks have survived to this day, some of them have even been translated into English.
The so-called Samara Sutradhara is nothing more than a scientific treatise that examines the journey in Vimana in various aspects. The 230 sutras describe the construction of an aircraft, takeoff, flying a thousand miles, normal and forced landings, even possible bird strikes. In 1875, the Vaimanika Shastra, a 4th century BC text written by Bharadvajay the Wise, was rediscovered in a temple in India. In it, using even more ancient texts, a description of Wiman's sortie was given. The text included information on how to navigate a ship, precautions for long-haul flights, protection from storms and lightning, and how to switch a ship to "solar power" using a free energy source that sounds similar to "anti-gravity".
The Vaimanika Shastra (or Vimaanika Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams describing three types of air machines, including those that do not burn in fire or break. The text also mentions 31 necessary parts of these apparatuses and 16 types of materials used in their construction. These materials absorb light and heat, for this reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Wymans. The document has been translated into English and can be ordered through VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja. English translation, edition and printing by Josyer, Mysore, India in 1979 (unfortunately no complete address). Mr. Josier is the Director of the International Academy for Sanskrit Studies, which is located in the state of Mysore (India).
It seems that there can be no doubt that the driving force of the Wymans was some kind of force close to "anti-gravity". Vimans took off vertically and were capable of hovering in the sky, like modern helicopters or airships. Bharavajay the Wise mentions seventy authoritative names and ten experts in the field of air travel. But these sources are lost.
Vimanas were kept in hangar-like rooms, they were called Vimana Griha. It is known that Vimanas worked on some kind of yellowish-white liquid, and sometimes a mixture was used, which included mercury, which is very confusing for those who write on this topic in our time. It seems that the writers of the later period, describing the Vimanas, took materials from the texts written earlier, and therefore it is understandable that they were confused by the principle of the movement of the Vimanas. As for the “yellowish-white liquid”, it is described very similar to gasoline. It is possible that Wimans flew using various means, including internal combustion engines and even "pulse jet" engines.
It is interesting to note that the Nazis were the first to build pulse jet engines for V-8 rockets, known as "buzz bombs." Hitler and his associates showed an increased interest in ancient India and Tibet, where they sent their expeditions back in the early 30s in order to collect esoteric evidence about ancient flying machines. Perhaps during those expeditions, the Nazis collected some scientific information.
According to the description given in Dronaparva (part of the Mahabharata) and in the Ramayana, Vimana was shaped like a sphere and could fly at great speed using a strong vortex formed by the interaction of mercury. He moved like a UFO - up and down, then back and forth, depending on the desire of the pilot. Another Indian source, Samar, says that the Vimanas were “iron machines with a smooth surface; they were charged with a mercury mixture, which, during takeoff, shot out of the tail of the apparatus in the form of a roaring flame. Another work called Samarangana Sutradhara describes the process of building such flying machines. It is quite possible that mercury was somehow connected with the process of movement of the apparatus, most likely with the control system. It is curious that Soviet scientists discovered in the caves of Turkestan and in the Gobi Desert apparatuses, which they called "ancient instruments used in the navigation of spacecraft." They are technical devices made of glass or porcelain and having a hemispherical shape ending in a cone, and inside this device a drop of mercury is visible.
Obviously, the ancient Indians flew these devices over all of Asia, reaching Atlantis. It is possible that they flew as far as South America. The scrolls found at Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan have not yet been deciphered. This city may have been one of the "seven cities of the Rishis belonging to the Empire of Rama". Similar scrolls were found elsewhere - on Easter Island! They are called the Rongo-Rongo scriptures and look very similar to the Mohenjo-daro scriptures, they also have not yet been deciphered.
Was Easter Island an airbase en route for the Rama Empire's Wimans?? (Imagine that passengers are passing through the field of Mohenjodaro Vimanadrome, they hear a soft voice from the speaker: "Rama Airlines Flight 7, bound for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca and Atlantis, is ready to fly. Passengers please go to gate N ... ”) Announcing a flight over a great distance to Tibet, a “chariot of fire” is reported. Such a flight was described as follows: “Bhima flew, sparkling in the sun, with a roar, like thunder. The flying chariot shone like a flame in the summer night sky... it sped away like a comet. It seemed that two suns shone in the sky, and then the chariot rose higher, illuminating the heavens.
In the eighth century Jain text Mahavira Bhavabhuti, borrowed from later texts and traditions, we read: "Pushkara's flying chariot, 
transports many people to the capital city of Ayodhya. The sky is crowded with huge flying machines, black in the night sky, but illuminated by lights, they take on a yellowish glow.
The Vedas, the ancient poetic works of the Hindus, were considered the oldest Indian texts describing Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the ahnihotra vimana with two motors, the elephant vimana, which had even more motors. Other types of Vimanas were known, named after birds: kingfisher, ibis and some animals.
Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific achievements, were mainly used for warfare. The Atlanteans used the Vailhi flying machines, similar in design to the Wymans, in order to conquer and subjugate the world. I think one can trust the Indian texts. The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian texts, were obviously even more technologically advanced than the ancient Indians, moreover, they had a warlike temperament. Although it is not known for certain that there are texts about the Vailikhs of the Atlanteans, some information about this came from esoteric, occult sources describing their flying machines. Just like the Vimanas of the Indians, the Vailikhs were cigar-shaped and could easily maneuver both in the sky, even in the above-ground space, and under water. Their other devices were saucer-shaped and could obviously be submerged in water.
According to Eklal Kieshan, the author of the article “The Last Edge”, which appeared in 1966, the Vaikhilis were built by the Atlanteans for the first time 20,000 years ago, and the most common were saucer-like devices, inside of which there were refectory-shaped intersections with three hemispherical compartments with motors in bottom of the device. They used a mechanical anti-gravity device driven by 80,000 horsepower motors.
Ramayana, Mahabharata and other texts tell about a terrible war between the Atlanteans and the civilization of Rama, which happened 10-12 thousand years ago. Such weapons were used in the war, which it will not be possible even to present to readers until the middle of this century.
The ancient Mahabharata, being one of the sources describing the Vimanas, continues the story of the terrible destruction that war brings: “the weapon looked like a rocket projectile charged with all the energy of the Universe. A dazzling column of smoke and flame, sparkling as if a thousand suns shone in all their splendor...
A bolt from the blue! The giant messenger of death, who turned the whole race of Vrishnis and Andhakas into ashes ... The bodies of people were burned beyond recognition. Hair and nails fell out, dishes broke without a hit, and the birds turned white ... After a few hours, all food became inedible. In an attempt to avoid the fire and to wash away the vapors of radiation, the soldiers threw themselves into the water ... ".
It may seem that the Mahabharata describes an atomic war! Similar terrible descriptions are found in other ancient Indian manuscripts. Also often found in them are descriptions of the use of a variety of fantastic weapons and flying machines. One of them describes a battle on the moon between two flying machines - Wiman and Vailix! The above passage very accurately describes what an atomic explosion might look like, as well as the destructive effect of radioactivity on all living things. Only a jump into the water brings temporary relief.
When in the last century archaeologists excavated the city of Rishi, Mohenjo-daro, they found the skeletons of people right on the streets, some of their hands clenched as if they were in mortal danger. These skeletons are as radioactive as those found on the streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ancient cities with sintered brick and stone walls turned into glass can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and elsewhere. There is no logical explanation for such a transformation other than that it is the result of an atomic explosion.
With the cataclysms that occurred, the sinking of Atlantis and the destruction of the kingdom of Rama with atomic weapons, the world slipped into the "Stone Age".
Translation by Galina Ermolina.
Novosibirsk
The history of ancient India is fraught with many mysteries. Here traces and echoes of very ancient knowledge are intertwined in a bizarre way, which, according to the current ideas, simply could not be known to people of previous eras.
Particularly noteworthy are information about aircraft and weapons that are terrible in their destructive power. This is indicated by many ancient Indian written sources, the time of which dates back at least from the 3rd millennium BC. e. until the 11th century AD. e. Indologists have no doubt that most of these texts are originals or lists from originals, and that among the impressive number of them, most of them are still waiting for translation from ancient Sanskrit.
Ancient chroniclers recounted events that were subsequently modified and often distorted by many generations of storytellers. The grain of truth in the myths that have come down to us is so densely shrouded in later layers that it is sometimes difficult to single out the original fact. However, according to many Indologists, in the Sanskrit texts, under thousands of years of "fantastic" layers, information is hidden about the knowledge that people really possessed in ancient times.
Aircraft in the Vedas
Flying machines are mentioned in more than 20 ancient Indian texts. The oldest of these texts are the Vedas, compiled, according to most Indologists, no later than 2500 BC. e. (The German orientalist G. G. Jacobi refers them to 4500 BC, and the Indian researcher V. G. Tilak even to 6000 BC).
The 150 verses of the Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda describe aircraft. One of these "air chariots that flew without a horse" was built by the divine master Ribhu. "… The chariot moved faster than thought, like a bird in the sky, rising to the Sun and the Moon.and descending to the Earth with a loud roar ... " The chariot was driven by three pilots; she was able to take on board 7-8 passengers, she could land on land and on water.
The ancient author also indicates the technical characteristics of the chariot: a three-story triangular apparatus, which had two wings and three wheels that retracted during flight, was made of several types of metal and worked on liquids called madhu, rasa and anna. Analyzing this and other Sanskrit texts, Professor-Sanskritologist D.K. Kanjilal, author of Vimanas of Ancient India (1985), came to the conclusion that rasa is mercury, madhu is alcohol made from honey or fruit juice, anna is alcohol from fermented rice or vegetable oil.
Vedic texts describe celestial chariots of various types and sizes: "agnihotravimana" with two engines, "elephant-vimana" with even more engines, and others called "kingfisher", "ibis", and also by the name of other animals. Examples of flights of chariots are also given (the gods and some of the mortals flew on them). For example, here is how the flight of a chariot belonging to the Maruts is described: "... Houses and trees trembled, and small plants were uprooted by a terrifying wind, caves in the mountains were filled with a roar, and the sky seemed to split into pieces or fall from the great speed and mighty roar of the air crew ...".
Aircraft in Mahabharata and Ramayana
Many mentions of air chariots (vimanas and agnihotras) are found in the great epic of the Indian people "Mahabharata" and "Ramayana". Both poems describe in detail the appearance and structure of aircraft: "iron machines, smooth and shiny, with a roaring flame erupting from them"; "two-deck round ships with holes and a dome"; " two-storied celestial chariots with many windows blazing with red flames" , which " climbed up to where both the Sun and the Stars are visible at the same time" . It also indicates that the flight of the vehicles was accompanied by a melodic ringing or a loud sound, during the flight fire was often seen. They could hover in the air, move up and down, back and forth, rush at the speed of the wind, or travel great distances "v blink of an eye", "at the speed of thought" .
From the analysis of ancient texts, it can be concluded that vimanas- the fastest and least noisy aircraft; same flight agnihotr accompanied by a roar, flashes of fire or bursts of flame (apparently, their name comes from "agni" - fire).
Ancient Indian texts state that there were flying vehicles for wandering within the "surya mandala" and "nakshatra mandala". "Surya" in Sanskrit and modern Hindi means the Sun, "mandala" - a sphere, region, "nakshatra" - a star. Perhaps this is an indication of both flights within the solar system and beyond.
There were large aircraft that could carry troops and weapons, as well as smaller vimanas, including pleasure craft designed for one passenger; flights on air chariots were performed not only by gods, but also by mortals - kings and heroes. Thus, according to the Mahabharata, the commander-in-chief, Maharaja Bali, the son of the demon king Virocana, boarded the Vaihayasu ship. “…This wonderfully decorated ship was created by the demon Maya and equipped with weapons of all kinds. It is impossible to comprehend and describe it.
He was visible, but not.Sitting in this ship under a wonderful protective umbrella ... Maharaja Bali, surrounded by his commanders and commanders, seemed to illuminate all directions of the moon, rising in the evening ... ".
Another hero of the Mahabharata, the son of Indra from the mortal woman Arjuna, received a magical vimana as a gift from his father, who also placed at his disposal his charioteer Gandharva Matali. "... The chariot was equipped with everything necessary. Neither the gods nor the demons could defeat it; it radiated light and trembled, making a rumbling sound.With her beauty, she captivated the minds of all who beheld her. It was created by the power of his austerities Vishvakarma - the architect and designer of the gods.Its shape, like the shape of the Sun, could not be accurately seen ... ". Arjuna flew not only in the atmosphere of the Earth, but also in Space, taking part in the war of the gods against the demons... "... And on this sun-like, miraculous divine chariot, the wise descendant of Kuru flew up. Becoming invisible to mortals walking on the earth, he saw thousands of wonderful air chariots. There was no light, no sun, no moon,no fire, but they shone with their own light, acquired through their merits.Because of the distance, the light of the stars is visible as a tiny flame of a lamp, but in reality they are very large. The Pandava saw them bright and beautiful, shining with the light of their own fire...".
Another hero of the Mahabharata, King Uparichara Vasu , also flew in Indra's vimana. From it, he could observe all the events on Earth, the flights of the gods in the Universe, and also visit other worlds. The king was so carried away by his flying chariot that he abandoned all business and spent most of his time in the air along with all his relatives.
In the Ramayana, one of the heroes, Hanuman, flew to the palace of the demon Ravana on lanka, was amazed by his huge flying chariot, called Pushpaka (Puspaka). " ... She shone like pearls and hovered over the high palace towers ... Trimmed with gold and adorned with incomparable works of art created by Vishwakarma himself,
Flying in the vastness of space, like a ray of the Sun, Pushpak's chariot sparkled dazzlingly.Every detail in it was made with the greatest art, as well as the ornament, lined with the rarest precious stones...Irresistible and fast as the wind... rushing through the sky, spacious, with numerous rooms,decorated with magnificent works of art, bewitching the heart, flawless as the autumn moon, it resembled a mountain with sparkling peaks ... ".
And here is how this flying chariot is characterized in a poetic passage from the Ramayana:
"... At Pushpaka, the magical chariot,
Spilled with a hot sheen spokes.
Magnificent palaces of the capital
They did not reach her hub!
And the body was in knobby patterns -
Coral, emerald, feathered,
Zealous horses, rearing up,
And colorful rings of intricate snakes ... "
"... Hanuman marveled at the flying chariot
And Vishvakarmana to the divine right hand.
He created her, flying smoothly,
Decorated with pearls and said himself: "Glorious!"
A testament to his hard work and success
This milestone shone on the sunny path ... "
We now give a description of the celestial chariot presented by Rama Indra: "... That celestial chariot was large and beautifully decorated, two-storey with many rooms and windows.She made a melodic sound before soaring into the heavenly heights ... ".
And here is how Rama received this heavenly chariot and fought with Ravana (translated by V. Potapova):
"... My Matali! - Indra then calls the driver, -
You Raghu take the chariot to my descendant!
And Matali brought out the heavenly, with a wonderful body,
He harnessed fiery horses to emerald drawbars...
... Then the Thunder Chariot from left to right
The brave man went around, as his glory went around the worlds.
Tsarevich and Matali, tightly clutching the reins,
Ride in a chariot. Ravana rushed to them too,
And the battle began to boil, raising hairs on the skin ... "
The Indian emperor Ashoka (III century BC) organized the "Secret Society of Nine Unknowns", which included the best scientists of India. They studied ancient sources containing information about aircraft. Ashoka kept the scientists' work secret, as he did not want the information they received to be used for military purposes. The work of the society resulted in nine books, one of which was called "Secrets of Gravity". This book, known to historians only by hearsay, dealt mainly with the control of gravity. Where the book is today is unknown, perhaps it is still kept in some library in India or Tibet.
Ashoka was also aware of the devastating wars with aircraft and other superweapons that destroyed the ancient Indian "Ram Raj" ( Rama's kingdom) several thousand years before it. The kingdom of Rama on the territory of Northern India and Pakistan, according to some sources, was created 15 thousand years ago, according to others, it arose in the 6th millennium BC. e. and existed until the III millennium BC. e. Rama's kingdom had large and luxurious cities, the ruins of which can still be found in the deserts of Pakistan, Northern and Western India.
There is an opinion that the kingdom of Rama existed in parallel with the Atlantean (the kingdom of the "Asvins") and Hyperborean (the kingdom of the "Aryans") civilizations and it was ruled by "enlightened priest-kings" who headed the cities.
The seven greatest capital cities of Rama are known as the "seven cities of the rishis". According to ancient Indian texts, the inhabitants of these cities had aircraft - vimanas.
About aircraft - in other texts
The Bhagavata Purana provides information about an air attack by a combat aircraft ("iron flying city") Saubha, built by Maya Danava and under the command of the demon Shalva, on the residence of the god Krishna - the ancient city of Dvaraka, which, according to L. Gentes, was once located on the Kathyawar Peninsula. Here is how this event is described in L. Gentes' book "The Reality of the Gods: Space Flight in Ancient India" (1996) in a translation by an unknown author, close to the Sanskrit original:
"... Shalva besieged the city with his mighty army
O illustrious Bharata. Gardens and parks in Dwarka
He brutally destroyed, burned and razed to the ground.
He set up his headquarters above the city, hovering in the air.
He destroyed the glorious city: and its gates, and towers,
And palaces, and galleries, and terraces, and platforms.
And the weapons of destruction rained down on the city
From his terrible, formidable celestial chariot ... "
(Approximately the same information about the air attack on the city of Dvaraka is given in the Mahabharata)
Saubha was such an extraordinary ship that sometimes it seemed that there were many ships in the sky, and sometimes not a single one was visible. He was visible and invisible at the same time, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were at a loss, not knowing wherethis strange ship. He was seen either on Earth, or in the sky, or landing on the top of a mountain, or floating on the water. This amazing ship flew across the sky like a fiery whirlwind, not remaining motionless for a moment.
And here is another episode from the Bhagavata Purana. After marrying the daughter of King Swayambhuva Manu, Devahuti, sage Kardama Muni decided one day to take her on a journey through the universe. For this he built a luxurious "air palace"(vimanu) who could fly, obedient to his will. Getting this " marvelous flying palace, he and his wife went on a journey through various planetary systems: “…Thus, he traveled from one planet to another, like a wind that blows everywhere without encountering obstacles. Moving through the air in his magnificent, radiant castle in the air, which flew, obedient to his will, he surpassed even the demigods…”.
Interesting descriptions of the three "flying cities" created by the engineering genius Maya Danava are given in the Shiva Purana: " ... Air chariots, shining like a solar disk,studded with precious stones, moving in all directions and like moons illumined the city...".
In the well-known Sanskrit source "Samarangana Sutradhara" vimanas are assigned as many as 230 stanzas! Moreover, the design and principle of operation of vimanas are described, as well as various ways of their takeoff and landing, and even the possibility of collision with birds. Various types of vimanas are mentioned, for example, a light vimana, resembling a large bird ("laghu-dara") and representing "a large bird-like apparatus made of light wood, the parts of which were firmly connected." "The car moved with the help of the air flow produced by the flapping of the wings up and down. They were powered by the pilot due to the force obtained by heating the mercury." It was thanks to mercury that the machine acquired "power of thunder" and turned "to the pearl in the sky The text lists the 25 components of the vimaana and discusses the basic principles of their manufacture. "Strong and durable should be made the body of the vimana, like a huge bird of light material. Inside should be placed a mercury engine [high-temperature chamber with mercury] with its iron heating apparatus [with fire] under it. By means of the force hidden in mercury, which drives the leading the whirlwind in motion, the person sitting inside can travel long distances across the sky.The movements of the vimana are such that it can rise vertically, descend vertically, and move obliquely forward and backward. With the help of these machines, human beings can rise into the air and celestial beings can descend to earth.".
The "Samarangana Sutradhara" also describes heavier vimanas - "alaghu", "daru-vimanas", containing four layers of mercury over an iron furnace. "Boiling mercury furnaces make a terrible noise, which during the battle is used to scare away the elephants. By the force of the mercury chambers, the roar can be increased so much that the elephants become completely uncontrollable ...".
In Mahavira Bhavabhuti , Jain text of the 8th century, compiled on the basis of ancient texts and traditions, can be read:"The air chariot, Pushpaka, brings many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of huge flying machines, black as night, but dotted with yellowish glowing lights ... " .
Approximately the same accumulation of vimanas is narrated by the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana in the scene in which the wife of the god Shiva, Sati, seeing relatives flying in vimanas to the sacrifice ceremony (which was arranged by her father Daksha), asks her husband to let her go there: "... O unborn one, O blue-necked one, not only my relatives, but also other women, dressed in beautiful clothes and adorned with jewels, go there with their husbands and friends. Look at the sky, which has become so beautiful because strings of airships, white as swans, float across it ... ".
"Vimanika Shastra" - an ancient Indian treatise on flying
Detailed information about vimanas is contained in the book "Vimanika Shastra", or "Vimanik Prakaranam" (translated from Sanskrit - "The Science of Vimanas" or "Treatise on Flights").
According to one source, "Vimanika Shastra" was discovered in 1875 in one of the temples of India. It was compiled in the 4th century BC. sage Maharsha Bharadvaji, who used even more ancient texts as sources. According to other sources, its text was written down in 1918-1923. Venkatachaka Sharma in the retelling of the sage-medium, Pandit Subbraya Shastri, who dictated 23 books of "Vimanika Shastra" in a state of hypnotic trance. Subbriya Shastri himself claimed that the text of the book was written on palm leaves for several millennia and passed down orally from generation to generation. According to him, the "Vimanika Shastra" is part of the extensive treatise of the sage Bharadvaja, entitled "Yantra-sarvasva" (translated from Sanskrit "Encyclopedia of mechanisms" or "All about machines"). According to other experts, it is about 1/40 of the work "Vimana vidyana" ("Science of aeronautics").
The Vimanika Shastra was first published in Sanskrit in 1943. Three decades later, it was translated into English by the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Studies in Mysore (India), J. R. Josaer, and was published in 1979 in India.
The "Vimanika Shastra" contains numerous references to the works of 97 ancient scientists and experts on the construction and operation of aircraft, materials science, and meteorology.
The book describes four types of aircraft (including those that could not catch fire or crash) - Rukma Vimana, Sundara Vimana, Tripura Vimana and Shakuna Vimana. The first of them had a conical shape, the configuration of the second was rocket-like: " Tripura Vimana "was three-tiered (three-story), and on its second floor there were cabins for passengers, this multi-purpose apparatus could be used for both air and underwater travel;" Shakuna Vimana "was like a big bird.
All aircraft were made of metals. Three types of them are mentioned in the text: "somaka", "soundalika", "maurthvika", as well as alloys that can withstand very high temperatures. In addition, the Vimanika Shastra gives information about 32 main parts of aircraft and 16 materials used in their manufacture that absorb light and heat. Various devices and mechanisms on board the vimana are most often called "yantra" (machine) or "darpana" (mirror). Some of them resemble modern television screens, others are radars, others are cameras; devices such as electric current generators, solar energy absorbers, etc. are also mentioned.
An entire chapter of the Vimanika Shastra is devoted to the description of the Guhagarbhadarsh Yantra.With its help, it was possible to determine the location of objects hidden under the ground from a flying vimana!
The book also speaks in detail about seven mirrors and lenses that were installed on board the vimanas for visual observations. So, one of them, called the "Pinjula mirror", was intended to protect the pilots' eyes from the blinding "devil rays" of the enemy.
"Vimanika Shastra" names seven sources of energy that set aircraft in motion: fire, earth, air, energy of the sun, moon, water and space. Using them, vimanas acquired abilities that are currently inaccessible to earthlings. So, the "guda" power allowed the vimanas to be invisible to the enemy, the "paroksha" power could disable other aircraft, and the "pralaya" power emitted electric charges and destroyed obstacles. Using the energy of space, vimanas could bend it and create visual or real effects: starry sky, clouds, etc.
The book also tells about the rules for controlling aircraft and their maintenance, describes the methods of training pilots, diet, methods of making special protective clothing for them. It also contains information on protecting aircraft from hurricanes and lightning and guidance on switching the engine to "solar power" from the "anti-gravity" free energy source.
The Vimanika Shastra reveals 32 secrets which an aeronaut must learn from knowledgeable mentors. Among them there are quite understandable requirements and flight rules, for example, taking into account meteorological conditions. However, most of the secrets concerned knowledge that is inaccessible to us today, for example, the ability to make vimana invisible to opponents in battle, increase or decrease its size, etc. Here are some of them:
"... having gathered together the energies of yas, vyas, prayas in the eighth layer of the atmosphere covering the Earth, attract the dark component of the sun's ray and use it to hide the vimana from the enemy..."
"... by means of vyanarathya vikarana and other energies in the heart center of the solar mass, attract the energy of the ethereal flow in the sky, and mix it with the balakha-vikarana shakti into a balloon, thereby forming a white shell that will make the viman invisible ...";
"... if you enter the second layer of summer clouds, collect the energy of Shaktyakarshana darpana, and apply it to parivesha ("halo-vimana"), you can generate a paralyzing force, and the opponent's vimana will be paralyzed and disabled...";
"...by projecting the beam of light from Rohini, one can make visible objects in front of the vimana...";
"...vimana will move zigzag like a snake, if you collect dandavaktra and seven other energies of the air, connect with the sun's rays, pass through the sinuous center of the vimana and turn the switch ...";
"...by means of a photographic yantra in the vimana, obtain a television image of objects inside the enemy ship...";
"... if you electrify three types of acid in the northeastern part of the vimana, expose them to 7 types of sunlight and put the resulting force into the tube of the trishirsha mirror, everything that happens on Earth will be projected onto the screen ...".
According to Dr. R.L. Thompson from the Bhaktivedanta Institute in Florida, USA, the author of the books "Aliens: a view from the depths of time", "The Unknown History of Humanity", these instructions have a lot of parallels with eyewitness accounts of the behavior of UFOs.
According to various researchers of Sanskrit texts (D.K. Kanjilal, K. Nathan, D. Childress, R.L. Thompson, etc.), despite the fact that the illustrations of the "Vimanika Shastra" are "polluted" in the 20th century, it contains Vedic terms and ideas that may be genuine. And the authenticity of the Vedas, "Mahabharata", "Ramayana" and other ancient Sanskrit texts that describe aircraft, no one doubts.
