NOTES

1 François de Nion, ‘Chronique de Paris et d’ailleurs’, Romans de la Mode illustrée, Supplément Littéraire, Paris, 9 Feb 1908, p47. 2 Dileep Kumar Kanjilal, Vimana in Ancient India,

Calcutta, 1985, pages 101-102, 122-123. Quite a few American newspapers published Talpade’s claim in 1952 and 1953.

3 HS Mukunda, SM Deshpande, HR Nagendra, A Prabhu, & SP Govindraju, “A critical study of the work Vyamanika Shastra”, Scientific Opinion: 5-12, 1974. 4 Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1888, TPS, Book I, Part II, p555.

5 W Scott-Elliott, The Story Of Atlantis, 1896, pp51-54. 6 Frederick S Oliver, A Dweller On Two Planets, Baumgarter, 1905, pp60-67. 7 William Kingsland, A Child’s Story of Atlantis, 1908. 8 J Ben Leslie, Atlantis Restored, Austin Publishing Company, 1911, pp12, 207-211.

9 ‘Solomon Gave Airplane to Queen’, Daily Kennebec Journal, 22 Oct 1923.