If this trend continues and gets going, helicopter components manufacturer worldwide will have to rethink on their offerings and pricing. This undergraduate boy from Nigeria creates HELICOPTER from old car and motorcycle scraps. One interesting trivia: the helicopter has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet.
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, 24, the brain behind the helicopter has purchased the aluminum scrap from the proceeds which he earned repairing computers and mobile phones in the locality. His father, a teacher, at Kano’s Bayero University also pitched in with some support.
The helicopter has a small screen the dashboard which is connected to the camera lying beneath for ground photography.
The guy who claims to learn the tricks of ‘helicopter-making’ on the Internet (biggest example of how open source can sprinkle even most technical and sough after knowledge across the world without any barriers, external, internal, if you get what I mean)
The helicopter is powered by one second hand Honda Civic and old Tayota saloon car.
So government response to this helicopter project from the college kid is not warm. But believe me, the guy is all slated to make it real big in his chosen world very soon.
