Berhampur: As the National Technology Day is being celebrated today across the country to commemorate achievement of engineers and scientists, the students of the Odisha Government-run Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Berhampur, on the occasion, has developed a flying car using their technical skills.
Dubbed as the country’s second flying car, this revolving car, which rotates at an RPM of one per minute, is filled with technology design. The flying car is driven by a 2 HP, 3 Phase squral case induction motor with speed 1480 RPM.
The ITI students have shown their skills and reduced the speed to 1 RPM by five stages using V pully, helical gears and bevel gears. The driving shaft is supported by two tapper roller bearings and one Bell threst bearing which taken the load of the car.
Most of the parts used have been brought from scrap and the other parts are designed and developed in the CNC tool room and turner workshop of the institute. This project will attract a large number of general public to make the institute an education wonder land as said by the institute principal Dr. Rajat Kumar Panigrahy.
Further, this innovative Engineers designed project will also attract mechanical degree and diploma students of the country to the institution.
Eminent technocrats of the country have praised the innovative project of the ITI Berhampur students.
ITI Berhampur, which is the 11th largest ITI in the country, had developed 15 innovative products during the first wave of COVID-19 last year and helped the government in the fight against the pandemic. Out of them four products were filled patented and being published in the patent journal.