Oct 23 2007Junk Copter Is Scary, Destined For Junkyard
A Nigerian physics undergraduate named Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi has built a helicopter out of junk. The 24-year-old bankrolled the project with the money he earned fixing PCs and cell phones. The copter consists of car and motorcycle parts, along with some off a crashed 747. It took 8 months to put together, and has "flown briefly on six occasions" but "never attained an altitude of more than seven feet." Now as much faith as I have in Mubarak, I'd be hard pressed to sit in this thing even if I knew we weren't going higher than seven feet. As a rule I don't ride in vehicles made of junk. Especially ones that are supposed to fly. They're just too safe. I like to live dangerously.
Nigerian Man Builds Helicopters Out of Junk [therawfeed, thanks to J for the tip]
Reader Comments
1. Giant - October 23, 2007 11:02 AM
fist
for fisting.
2. woodhorse - October 23, 2007 12:53 PM
Wonder how much gas it uses at 7 ft. Hope he included some oxygen tanks in case he loses pressurization - oh wait: at 7 ft he could just paint some O2 tanks on the inside.
3. Smartass - October 23, 2007 1:02 PM
Aww Man. He emailed me to get in on this as an investment. Nigerian Helicopter startup will pay off big if I just sent him $500 via western union.
Is my face red now.
4. Stoopid Monkey - October 23, 2007 5:28 PM
guess it's not such a good thing to get one of these for that village of 8 foot tall giants.
5. dog collar addict - October 23, 2007 6:35 PM
wow, does this dude have a death wish? or maybe his lifelong dream is to die in a huge ball of flames.
6. dog collar enforcer - October 24, 2007 2:45 PM
dog collar addict, let's get together and do some bdsm. tonite. fuck yaeh! woo!
7. Stoopid Monkey - October 24, 2007 5:33 PM
...........ménage à trois?!?!?!!?
8. mike - October 25, 2007 12:50 PM
Junk Copter is junk