Helicopters are incredibly difficult to pilot and even tougher to build from scratch — yet these tinkerers were able to construct their own whirly birds and even fly them. Our friends at Oobject.com have assembled nine of the best homemade choppers.
If you enjoy looking directly above and/or below you (or, at least, straight-ahead), you’ll love these 17 Found-Object Chandeliers, or these things made in urban garages, or some drug-smuggling subs!
Three Somaliland nationals build homemade helicopter.
Simcopter, Mexico
A homebuilt helicopter, combining a Simca car with a 223kW Lycoming aircraft engine.
Zimcopter II, Zimbabwe
Zimcopter chopper made from aluminium sheets and an engine cannibalised from an old French Citroen motor vehicle.
Homebrew Vietnamese Farmers Helicopter
Home-Made Helicopters In Northern Nigeria
Homemade Helicopter Kumbo Cameroon
Remains Of Homemade Helicopter In Zimbabwe
Chinese Farmers Homemade Helicopter
Forbidden to fly it by the Chinese government. It runs on a motorcycle engine.
Nickinator
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM“Taesk Aeronautics – A division of Taesk Water Pumps”
Really gives a lot of hope doesn’t it…
will
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 11:16 PMout of all of them the last one looks the safest.
Simon
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 2:21 PMThat is because he’s wearing a helmet isn’t it?
Mariano
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 5:54 PMActually the last picture is of one of the safest helicopters ever built – the Mosquito. It’s designed in New Zealand and has an overwhelming safety record.