vadodara around 50 km from the city a group of budding are trying their hands on flying aircrafts they are busy learning to design build and assemble make drones powered and powered aircrafts under the umbrella of aeromodelling club which is shaping up as first such aeromodelling club in gujarat exclusively run by saturday around 20 such students the institute of technology and itm universe vadodara on halol highway give flight to their like balsa wood and paper among others to create miniaturized aircrafts that they can fly in the open skies in their campus aeromodelling is the of designing constructing and helicopters and rockets it both a hobby and an recognized which is nt popular in gujarat so far says divyabhanusinh rana conducts workshops on aeromodelling robotics and model rocketry the aircrafts both flying and flying are small sized replicas of existing or aircraft using a variety materials including paper plastic metal synthetic resins wood foam and fiberglass the most commonly types balsa wood and card stock in the iits and metros like mumbai members of such club participate in various air fares to showcase their passing for flying says who is grooming the students so that they too learn to organize such air shows in future club will also procure different models of model planes order to stay in touch with latest technology as well give its members a chance to fly them flying designs from generic gliders to scale models some of which be very aeromodelling to physics hand and eye coordination understand the importance of team but it is hobby and which is equally popular amongst non engineers involve general public as well the students can carry out survey through club says vinod ray dean entrepreneurship development and at itm universe vadodara