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Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the financed-entirely-by-dead-princes dept.

W33dz writes "A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen on yahoo or on Gizmodo using the money he makes from repairing cell phones and computers. While some of the parts have been sourced from a crashed 747, the chopper contains all sorts of surprises."

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  1. Re:Ay AY yay caramba! by d3ac0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Helicopters don't fly in a vacuum.


    Aaaaand you missed the point.

    Try googling "Galileo, laws of falling objects"
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