Crazy Teenager Takes Off In Homemade Pedal-Powered Aircraft

if a bird who just ate corn poops on it hard enough he'll just drop down... smart move

Oh c'mon guys, only two Flying Dutchman jokes in the comments? I know we can do better than that.

@stryder100: To paraphrase the punchline of an old joke, "I gave you helicopters, aeroplanes, and spacecraft - what more did you expect?"

outeast

@spider2544: Ah... trebuchets are fun to build. The last 4 I made were out of 8020 Aluminum! The looks we got as we walked in to that competition with our Aluminum monsters!

Woden501

@stryder100: If god DIDN'T want man to fly, it would have made flight impossible. As you can't prove the existence of god, but I CAN prove the existence of Bernoulli's Principal, you're an idiot.

"What did you do this summer?"

I got in a real airplane and came to Japan.

Akendall3

@stryder100: God just didn't get enough DNA points to add wings.

korofrog

this kid beat my high school summer project of building a trebuchet

spider2544

That landing must've been hell.

He's watched "Kiki's Delivery Service" too many times.

Midknyte

How long does it take to wind up the rubber band?

LeonardSwallow

@Hello Mister Walrus: And I banged him. Not so much..

Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK

must be nice to have that kind of time/money...

daewoo1534

@Pixelologist, Esq.: Exactly! For all you know I could be skydiving right now (or sitting at a Starbucks).

@ipodrulz: I wouldn't be quite so quick to count that as one of the "great" things about the internet - has anyone ever seen stryder100? Unless you mean the great thing is we can't.

(no offense)

@stryder100:
why does God always have to be a woman?

@Hello Mister Walrus:
and I, his grandma!

other than off-the shelf materials, he had proven designs to work with. Which doesn't take away from the achievement of a teenager, but makes it not newsworthy. Especially since he didn't cross the English Channel in it.

The wings look well made. I must say the support for the propeller shaft looks very unstable. Be glad you didn't go more than 5 feet!

DeniseAkuma

@CamilleCadmium: yea while the Dutch kids make flying machines here in America we beat video games WILL SEE YOU Dutch bastards on the WEB!!!!

LOL The flying Dutchman flys again!!!!!

I avoided starting any 3-YEAR projects to do something already done more effectively by others.

grok666

@ipodrulz: Yeah, he should get that checked. In fact I'll check right now, for free. I may not be a doctor in the strictest sense of the word but I think we both can get over that.

I just pull a Pippy Longstocking and spin around really fast with a broom and take off. It's how I got to work this morning....

siosphere

@ipodrulz: I can't. They escaped. Duh.

@TendoMentis: Peddling to fly would probably me more tiring than flying an conventional aircraft - just ask the chickens from Chicken run! :)

Oh yeah?
That's not so cool.
I made a submarine out of plywood, inner-tubes, a bicycle pump, garden hose, and duct tape.
It works great, if you don't mind being in a non-waterproof box, submerged, pumping like crazy to inflate the tubes, and wishing you had thought about breathing apparatus BEFORE submerging.

Which brings me to the next build.
A diving helmet made from a bicycle pump, garden hose and a 5 gallon galvanized milk bucket.

ottermann want's a Snickers

@ipodrulz: I imagine dozing off is a big concern for pilots of conventional aircraft too.

The inflatable auto-pilot never even finished flight school!!!

@taodude: That's the great thing about the internet @stryder100 could be naked already!

@ridgecity: Dude... you got 3 dicks? You should get that checked.

@SEDAGIVE?!: According to Malcolm in the Middle's Dewey, God is probably a big kid with a magnifying glass, and we're the ants whose prayers fall upon giant deaf ears while he lines up the magnifier with the sun.

Also, he likes us to have a big t on the wall.

Kaiser-Machead

The idea of a 'self powered aircraft' just creeps the shit out of me... imagine you cramp up, or doze off...

Wait for it... wait for it...

He's a flying dutchman.

Ba dum-psshhh.

ThePaul

Oh yeah? Well, I banged his mom.

Hello Mister Walrus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfKP132RKqw

TrixieMilda

@stryder100: You weren't born with wheels, a built-in radio, or for that matter clothes, either.

Start stripping.

taodude

Funny, I misread that headline at first. At first I thought it said "Crazy Teenager Has More Brains AND Nads Than You Do"

Totally fits, too. *tips hat*

What did I do this summer???
Why I got all my achievements on L4D I did...thanks for asking.
And, yes, my life is a pitiful excuse for...something.
What are you trying to prove?

@stryder100: Instead of internets. God probably speaks in LOLz. I can haz vengeance, sayeth teh lordz.

Kaiser-Machead

@TheGerk: God is obviously not real, don't make assumptions...

(Flame on?)

Wilbur and Orrville started this way too.

"Now, I know I remember seeing this somewhere"-Stewie

streetceltic

Someone give that young man some helium balloons. And a sat-phone. And a GPS unit that he doesn't know how to use. Then he's set.

Segador

A typical bike motor+battery is ~20 lbs. If he could shave some weight off the plane or find a lighter pilot it would be interesting to see how an electric-assist design performs. I'm a fat old man, and on my electric assist bike I can perform about like a pro rider... for about 20 miles... then the battery dies. :)

I always wanted to do something like this, but with a lawn mower engine. My mom would have killed me if I had dismantled the lawn mower for a makeshift airplane that would result in my death.

*Darwin enters, pushing God aside*

"Let me handle this...."

I had sex with 3 girls at the same time.

Wish I had a flying bike instead though...

ridgecity

I'd much prefer a jet pack once they finally perfect them around 70 years from now.

fuzz54

@stryder100: god is obviously a man, don't make assumptions.

TheGerk

I beat Gears 2 on insane mode...so...yeah

CamilleCadmium

If god wanted man to fly she would have given him wings.

stryder100