{"id":273215,"date":"2019-05-07T05:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273215"},"modified":"2019-05-07T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:09:18","slug":"meet-pakistani-popcorn-seller-who-viewed-tv-clips-and-built-his-own-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/meet-pakistani-popcorn-seller-who-viewed-tv-clips-and-built-his-own-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Pakistani popcorn seller who viewed TV clips and built his own plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The engine is from a roadcutter, the wings are burlap, the wheels are borrowed from a rickshaw: a popcorn seller has caught the attention of the Pakistan Air Force by building his own plane. <\/p>\n<p>The tale of Muhammad Fayyaz has captured the hearts of many in a nation where millions, just like him, have limited access to education and are fighting for opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was literally in the air. I couldn&#8217;t feel anything else,&#8221; Fayyaz said of his first flight in a machine he learned to build mainly from viewing TV clips and online blueprints. <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has been thrilled before by stories of scientific prodigies plucked from obscurity before &#8212; notably, that of the engineer who said in 2012 that he had invented a car that could run on water &#8212; a story that was later debunked by scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The engine is from a roadcutter, the wings are burlap, the wheels are borrowed from a rickshaw: a popcorn seller has caught the attention of the Pakistan Air Force by building his own plane. The tale of Muhammad Fayyaz has captured the hearts of many in a nation where millions, just like him, have limited access to education and are fighting for opportunities. &#8220;I was literally in the air. I couldn&#8217;t feel anything else,&#8221; Fayyaz said of his first flight in a machine he learned to build mainly from viewing TV clips and online blueprints. Pakistan has been thrilled before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}