K.T. Ajayakumar was not content with watching his son play with the toy plane he had bought a few days ago. The miniature aircraft set him thinking on a different track. Why not make it fly, he asked himself.
Guided by his irrepressible spirit of innovation, Ajayakumar started tinkering with the toy. After several attempts, he was able to come up with a propulsion system using a small motor and a battery. By integrating the motor into the body of the plast ic plane, he was able to make it fly.
“I used the electric motor of a tape recorder and the batteries of a charger to power the propellers on either side of the body of the plane. The plane can remain airborne for 150 minutes on a full charge,” says Ajayakumar.
To make up for the lack of a guidance system, the toy is held by a string. Buoyed by his success, Ajayakumar incorporated the same mechanism into a second toy plane. The two flying toy planes have become an attraction in the neighbourhood but for the local people who have seen several of Ajayakumar’s earlier innovations, it does not come as a surprise.
A welder by profession, the enterprising 28-year-old hailing from Kattakada in the city suburbs has a gallery of interesting products to his credit. These include a fuel-saving biogas stove and a granite LPG stove, both of which have become commercially successful. He is currently engaged in developing a power-saving water cooler.
Ajayakumar also claims to have developed a device that can be fitted to a locomotive to remove obstacles from the rail track when the train is in motion. He says the device will safely help remove people attempting suicide by jumping in front of trains.
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