Last Updated:March 02, 2026, 16:47 IST Every major village fair in Karnataka has these helicopter joyrides. The experience for the public is a high-speed sky tour, the machinery behind the magic is incredibly complex. For the price of a few weeks’ groceries, villagers can now experience the same luxury as the leaders they see on the news, turning a traditional village fair into a high-flying memory. Image: News18 The roar of the rotors was once a sound reserved for the arrival of a Chief Minister or a billionaire, a distant thunder from the world of the elite. For Hanumappa, a farmer from a small village in Karnataka, that sound recently became a personal reality. Standing on a dusty makeshift helipad at his local village fair, he traded Rs 4,000 for a seat in a sleek, six-seater machine. These are not the plastic toy plane rides found in amusement parks; they are real, multi-million-rupee aircraft. As the helicopter lifted off, Hanumappa saw his own green fields and the temple spire from a “Pushpaka Vimana” perspective, a …