Kuwaiti inventor grateful for PM's support

Kuwaiti inventor Adel Jumaa Al-Abdine expressed on Thursday his gratitude for Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah's support of his participation in the 41st Geneva Exhibition of Inventions. Al-Abdine, who invented the world's first safe landing strip for planes told (KUNA) he also appreciates the support of Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity. The center helped specifically with building the model representing the invention and acquiring a patent. The landing strip is provided with an electronic safety system to help in the event of malfunction in the wheels mechanism during landing. The system prevents friction with the landing strip which sometimes causes a fire, explained Al-Abdine. Al-Abdine hoped Sabah Al-Ahmad Center and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation would cooperate to present his invention to international civil aviation associations. He recalled that his invention received a gold medal and a prize at the sixth Kuwait inventions exhibition. The 41st Geneva Exhibition of Inventions kicked off April 10, and lasts till April 14, with 725 inventors participating, from 45 countries, vying for prizes and contracts with investors bring their inventions into actual production.