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Make Way For The Motorcycle Hearse

9:40AM November 24, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Redditor McTroma’s Uncle Bob passed away recently. He was “a great guy and a bad arse biker.” This is the bad arse motorcycle hearse which delivered him to his final resting place. [Reddit via BoingBoing] More »


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Blueprints of Obama’s Boring Helicopter Leaked to Iran Over P2P

9:45PM March 2, 2009 | John Herrman

President Obama isn’t very excited about his fancy new helicopter, but that’s not his fault—he just hasn’t seen its super-neat blueprints yet, because he’s not allowed to have Limewire.

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Obama Is Not Too Excited About His Expensive New Helicopter

11:46PM February 26, 2009 | Mark Wilson

While Lockheed Martin’s VH-71, the new Presidential chopper, is the latest greatest thing floating on five blades, Obama couldn’t be less enthusiastic, according to a recent Q&A:

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Indoor R-C Helicopters Go DIY, Use Spare Electronics Parts

12:30AM September 6, 2008 | Kit Eaton

Forget the Picoo Z’s, no matter how much fun they are they can’t be as cool as making and flying your own indoor remote-control ‘copter. And over at this site there’s a set of instructions that’ll help you DIY, assuming you have some spare CD drive motors and servos lying around, and are happy with soldering and detailed rotor-carving. The instructions even say how to add a wireless cam beneath the fuselage… useful for, um, imaging the precise moment you crash it into your cat? I suspect more nefarious purposes. Still, it’s a full cyclic-control aircraft, so it should be extremely flyable. [Heliproject via Hacknmod]

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