His friends and family reportedly made fun of him and his mother expressed her concern about the test flight, but this apparently did not deter him. He experimented with secondhand engines until he found one light enough, powerful enough and cheap enough to use for the plane.
Since his release, he has asked that the prime minister and army chief give him an opportunity to serve the nation, as “I can make the planes for the country at a low cost.” With a crowd of 500 watching, he reportedly used a length of road free from telegraph poles as the runway for his maiden flight and “took several rounds in the air”.
Mr Fayaz was then reportedly arrested for building an aircraft without a permit and “performing aerobatics in the makeshift flying machine”, the “first incidence report” filed by local police said.
“I made the aircraft with my hard work. My plane can fly till 1,000 feet. Give me one chance so that I can prove that I am a patriotic Pakistani. I informed every department but no one responded me,” Mr Fayyaz said, according to Pakistan Today.
He said he had visited Lahore several times in order to “have a glimpse of a Boeing plane and examine how it looks like and what material and parts have been used”.
He added: “A programme, namely Air Crash Investigation on the National Geographic also helped me a lot in this direction and I became familiar with the parts of an airplane and their functioning, and started working on my project.”
