Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines were 400 years ahead of their times. Centuries before the Wright brothers, he sketched ornithopters, gliders, a helicopter-like aerial screw, and even parachutes! Human muscles couldn’t make them fly, but his imagination knew no bounds. #history #leonardodavinci #innovation #weirdhistory | Weird History Facts & Vintage Photography

These ancient Colombian gold figurines are seen as either insects or early flying machines. #ancienthistory #archaeology #history | Untold Leaks

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VIMANA‪ - Ancient Flying Machines‬ The VIMANA are spacecraft, land leviathans, airplanes and interdimensional craft described in great technical detail in the ancient Vedic literature of India. Some were said to be as fast as thought itself. In the ancient Vymanka-Shastra (Science of Aeronautics), there’s a description of a Vimana: “An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place or globe to globe.” The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states that “The privilege of operating

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