In 2004, I published an article on WIG craft in a family magazine called Dharuma and many people were fascinated by it and the promise WIG craft hold to  transform transport in the Maldives. In fact, upon publication,  a well known business man, (Late) Mr Ali Abdulla, telephoned me and offered to finance a prototype. Unfortunately I did not have the time to design one then as there were too many work responsibilities. However, in 2015 January, when I was the Vice Chancellor of MNU, I submitted a grant proposal for a research project to design a 4-seat WIG craft. In this page I like to share our experiences with you.

Like most of you, I have also been fascinated by flight. Unfortunately, the opportunity to formally learn aeronautical engineering did not come to me. After a student of mine, Nashid, told me about the potential of WIG craft for small island states, I read everything on WIG craft I could get my hands on. Like you,  I have a comfortable familiarity with mathematics and physics, and with the help of many textbooks, the science is beginning to dawn on me, duh!  My passion for aeronautics has caused me to read about the the life of great aeronautical engineers of the past and their inventions. My favourites among them are the Horten brothers, Lippisch, Dornier, von Braun and Rutan.  There is little access to Russian literature but I am sure that there are eminent American and Russian engineers of flight other than the ekranoplan pioneer, Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev.

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