"I began to build the chopper after the school principal requested me to do so. In fact, he wanted me to build only a model of a helicopter to keep it the school. "The rest of the parts were made at my workshop in Kanjirappally," he said. The glass of an autorickshaw was used as the windscreen of the chopper. It had taken five years for the 45-year-old to build his aircraft.

Source: Times of India March 29, 2017 02:07 UTC