A Kerala man is making waves online (and in the air) for his unique style of holidaying – in an aircraft he built himself. Ashok Aliseril Thamarakshan, an engineer who hails from Alappuzha and is now based in the United Kingdom – not only built his own plane, but also tours with his family.<\/p>\n
Ashok built the four seater ‘Sling TSI’ model in about 18 months; he calls the plane, which is named for his daughter, ‘G-Diya’. The son of former MLA AV Thamarakshan, Ashok relocated to the UK in 2006 to study. He now works for the Ford Motor Company, The Times of India said.<\/p>\n
“Initially I used to rent small two-seater aircraft for trips after acquiring my pilot licence in 2018. But since my family comprises my wife and two daughters, I required a four-seater aircraft. But they are rare and even if I could get one… they were very old. This made me explore options and learn about home-built aircraft.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Kerala man is making waves online (and in the air) for his unique style of holidaying – in an aircraft he built himself. Ashok Aliseril Thamarakshan, an engineer who hails from Alappuzha and is now based in the United Kingdom – not only built his own plane, but also tours with his family. Ashok built the four seater ‘Sling TSI’ model in about 18 months; he calls the plane, which is named for his daughter, ‘G-Diya’. The son of former MLA AV Thamarakshan, Ashok relocated to the UK in 2006 to study. He now works for the Ford Motor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509730","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}