So this 24-year-old Nigerian Dude built a functional Helicopter using junk parts, because, and I’m paraphrasing here “it was easier to build a helicopter than a car”.

A 133 hp Honda Civic engine powers it, its 12 feet long, has 4 Toyota car seats and flying it is as simple as:

You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin,” he explains. “The further you shift the accelerator the faster it goes and once you reach 300 rpm you press the joystick and it takes off.

He uses a simple radio to communicate with the ground and he’s mounted a camera in the front, with a monitor in the dash, to have a better ground view. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi spent 8 months building his flying machine with money he earned repairing computers and cellphones. This a truly the story of a man with a dream and an accomplishment. Mubarak has now been added to the list of my heroes. Some videos and a log or description of how he made this chopper would be awesome…but this is all there is out there.

Source [Gizmodo]