Ancient Flying Craft

An amazing roster of Ancient Flying Machines is emerging from recently translated Indian Texts that date back as far as 300 B.C. These 2300 year old texts are most likely transcripts and manually copied versions of much older knowledge. The Sanskrit texts are voluminous and many remain to be translated. "VIMANAS" the word used to describe a type of aerial machine with incredible capabilities appears dozens of times in these Ancient Indian documents. Citizens of the Seven Rishi Cities possessed Flying Machines called "VIMANAS". The Samara Sutradhara a collection of poems appears to be a scientific flight manual. The writings instruct readers on the many aspects of operating a "VIMANA". Detailed discussions on construction, operating, maintaining, navigation and even emergency landing procedures are laid out in precise detail. These ancient writings could be dismissed as nothing more than the scratches of an inebriated primitive Science Fiction writer. But, could

The Samara Sutradhara a collection of poems appears to be a scientific flight manual.

Perhaps I should hang on to my toaster's operating manual.
In a thousand years it could be regarded as a great work of art.

All jokes aside though, I think the ancients were on to something..