Kanak Gogoi's single seat helicopter
Magnificent Gogoi and His Flying Car Kanak Gogoi is a serial inventor who won a national award for a pedal-free cycle. But the real jaw-droppers are his airborne vehicles. Apart from his flying car, Gogoi is also busy designing a single-seater helicopter which he says will be more cost effective than any flying machine available today. (Photo: RUHANI KAUR) Kanak Gogoi a compulsive inventor. His workshop, overlooking the lush Sarania Hills in Guwahati, is strewn with outcomes of his creative impulses. It is littered with work tables, raw materials and strange-looking contraptions that seem straight out of a sci-fi flick. At one end is the Trygo X that he invented to outsmart the city’s maddening traffic. With one wheel at the back and two in front, this contraption is meant to zip in and out of congested lanes. Right next to it, peeping out of its covers, is an emerald coloured vehicle—a car that runs on “compressed air”. Inspired by the looming threat...