Nigerian Man Builds Homemade Helicopter

[Rob Williams]

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I've built little in my time, and I blame the reason on my not planning things through. Apparently that's not the case for a Nigerian man, who built a HOMEMADE HELICOPTER. Being a physics undergraduate, Mubarak wanted to build some vehicle and actually found it cheaper to build a helicopter than a car. Being a keen junk salvager, he scored some parts from a crashed plane and other vehicles. The helicopter is unable to go higher than 7ft, but it sure beats the desk (which came with instructions) I've managed to build in the past!

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It is powered by a second-hand 133 horsepower Honda Civic car engine and kitted out with seats from an old Toyota saloon car. Its other parts come from the carcass of a Boeing 747 which crashed near Kano some years ago. For a four-seater it is a big aircraft, measuring twelve metres (39 feet) long, seven metres high by five wide. It has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet.

Source: Yahoo! News
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[GameMasterNick]

Oh, so -that- one wasn't an investment scam.
Poor nigerians, a few bad emails and their entire country becomes distrusted.

That's pretty awesome, but I'd rather have the whirlybird from the A-team that you can fold up and put in your trunk.

 

[NicePants42]

measuring twelve metres (39 feet) long, seven metres high by five wide. It has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet.

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What?! If that guy can make a 133hp motor lift a helicopter 39' long x 23' high x 16' wide, I think he deserves the Nobel for physics.

Either that's the wrong picture, or someone used the wrong units.