The aircraft was purportedly inspired by the Vaimānika Shāstra ("Science of Aeronautics"), a text authored in 1904 that is frequently associated with descriptions of aircraft in the Vedas. The technological feasibility of the designs in the Vaimānika Shāstra was debunked in a 1974 paper by scientists from the Indian Institute of Science. The Vaimānika Shāstra itself states that Talpade was unsuccessful in his attempt to construct an aircraft.
