ludhiana three decades ago when manjeev bhogals father brought a aeromodelling kit for his son he might have not imagined in his wildest dreams that along with keeping up the family name in cycle business manjeev will also make it so big in the aeromodelling industry manjeev took to flying plane models from a young age and even used to encourage people around him to take to aeromodelling and flying as a hobby he also trained people free of cost narrating about how he made a foray in this field manjeev says during my stint as an ncc cadet some officers sent a soldier to me to train him to fly an airplane model in due course the soldier told me that the aeromodels being used by the army were very costly and imported from other countries it was then that i thought of trying my hand at manufacturing them for the defence forces as i was already assembling these for my fellow aeromodelling lovers on no profit basis starting from making a limited number of models for sale bhogal today is one of the biggest manufacturer of composite fibreglass aeromodels in 20042005 we formed bhogal aero tech that till date is the largest supplier of fibreglass aeromodels to the defence forces these are used for training and surveillance purposes it runs in the blood it has been more than 70 years now that bhogals are into cycle business and are known faces of the cycle industry however now aeromodelling business is also being taken up by the future bhogal generations besides running the family business latest to join in is manjeevs newphew naminder bhogal who has completed his aircraft maintenance engineering ame like cycle business aeromodelling also runs in our blood my father was also very fond of flying aeromodels and right from the age of 10 naminder too is into flying these models he was an expert even in his childhood manjeev says adding since i didnt get any kind of training in this field we ensured that naminder enters this business with full professional training challenge by israeli company with already making highly technical products like cap 232 extra 300 reaction jet that flies on aviation turbine fuel atf about 6 years ago bhogals tried their hand at manufacturing of half scale aero model that is the half size of a searcher unamanned arial vehicle uav till then only israeli companies had monopoly in this field and when one of the companies came to know that bhogals were trying to make it at half the cost they put up a challenge for them the company officials laughed at our project and told the defence authorities that the half scale could not be made anywhere else in the world we took this challenge seriously and worked hard to make this model finally we ended up not only making up same quality of this model in india but also managed to reduce the cost by half