DUBAI: UAE-Based 12-Year-Old Indian Sets World Record For Identifying Most Airplane Tails

DUBAI: A 12-year-old Indian boy in the UAE has entered into the
Guinness Book of World Records by identifying the most aeroplane tails in a
minute, media reports said on Thursday.

Siddhant Gumber, an Abu Dhabi-based
homeschooled boy who identified 39 aeroplane tails in 60 seconds, is also the
youngest Indian to identify top 100 tallest buildings, Gulf News reported.

Gumber, who hails from Haryana, was
earlier recognised by the “India Book of World Records”. He achieved
the Guinness world record last month, the report said.

His name also features in the
“India Book” for being the youngest to identify the top 100 tallest
buildings of the world with their respective heights and locations, it said.

“I have been a Lego buff since
I was a toddler, and my father and I spent a lot of time creating a variety of
models – rockets, air planes, buildings and vehicles. I was able to recognise a
lot of the air plane tails, and my mother helped me compile them in PowerPoint
slides so I could identify them (very quickly),” Siddhant Gumber told Gulf
News.

His mother Monisha said that her son
has always been interested in signs, symbols and logos. “He has an
exceptional picture memory and usually never forgets an image once he has seen
it. He does have a variety of interests and likes to know about things into
detail, just like air planes. Although he loves country flags, we focused on
aeroplane tails for the Guinness record because they too are unique,” she
said.

He took about 1.5 seconds per
airline tail, she added.