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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:Give that Kid a Visa!! by freedom_india · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude !
    You want him to be detained indefinitely in Guantanamo as soon as he lands?

    With our current dubya government and paranoid renditions, and considering he is from a backward country with a predominant moslem majority, plus he has built helicopters (and other WMDs) who knows what such a brilliant guy could do once inside????

    In just 8 years, Dubya has undone the 200 years of goodwill USA had accumulated as a haven for refugees.
    It is time we returned back the Liberty Statue to France.

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    "Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
  2. Re:Ballmer says helicopter violates Microsoft IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oic what you did there

  3. 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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    Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
  4. Re:Give that Kid a Visa!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is time we returned back the Liberty Statue to France.

    I agree, we have too many fucking immigrants making my taxes higher, the roads clogged, jibber-jabbering in foreign languages, fucking up a simple order at McDonalds, and crashing out planes into our skyscrapers.

    AMERICA IS FUCKING CLOSED! GO HOME!