bhopal he is a lawyer by profession and a flier by passion the interesting thing is he operates planes that he makes himself though he doesnt sit in the cockpit he flies them through remote meet sudiptolalmukerjee legal head of a private telecom company the man is passionate about aeromodelling that he picked up as a hobby in his childhood his office is in indore and he comes to bhopal every weekend to fly his planes along with his son arijit an engineering student who has inherited love for aeromodelling from his father and has already become so skilled that he has won several prizes in college competitions the father and son regularly go for flying their planes at kaliasot adventure zone here where they are joined by a few others from bhopal who share the same hobby sudiptos father used to give him a princely pocket money of rs 250 per month when he was in school he saved it for two years and bought his first plane for rs 175 the joy of flying that plane made him want to know more about knife edge carpentry as he calls the art of making a model plane that can fly he began reading more and more about the subject and tried his hands at making aeromodels as he got skilled he began modelling them as good as professionals in the meanwhile he kept augmenting his knowledge of the subject through the net and other sources initially sudipto used to make the planes from balsa wood the model had to be chiselled from the wood with the help of a knife which is why the art of making aero model is also called knife edge carpentry he said now there are carbon sheets available which are much lighter and easy to model than any other material these sheets also allow for making better models with finer features a remote with a range of a km to fly an aero model costs rs 5000 and above his house in kolar area resembles an aero museum with models adorning walls almost everywhere he has also converted the landing of stairs as his hanger where both father and son carry out repairs and make new planes his son arijit says the hobby has helped him not only stay calm but take quick decisions whenever required and he plans to explore the realm of flying even more as he grows up and help him become technically sound so to say