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Chinese Man Builds Hand-Made Helicopter, Flies It

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sea_alex
04/13/09

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This video is a fake its been around or a awhile. It uses a technique called forced perspective in which miniature like the RC helicopter in this case looks like s it much bigger in reality the helicopter model is the closest object to the camera. If you look closely you will notice that its acualty flies behind the men "watching" it instead ahead of the them. But the real give away is that it does not generate any where near enough dust on the ground.
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dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
04/13/09

@sea_alex: looks real to me. that's a pretty lifelike miniature man in it if it's fake.
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DoctorNine
04/13/09

@sea_alex: And now that you've just stolen away my emotional exultation at the awesomeness of this apparent event, what exactly are you going to replace it with? Dangit all... that's emotional cruelty. And that, my friend, is grounds for divorce. I'm getting an attorney...
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sea_alex
04/13/09

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!:

You might notice that pilot in the video never moves ...

and also note that the still shots above are of the same helicopter. I fly in helicopters for work on regular basis those guys are always looking around yet this once seems to be frozen in his seat while he is close proximity to building power lines people and passing traffic...

But anyway like I said this video has been out there for quite some time and has been debunked before.
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Miscellanea
04/13/09

@sea_alex: You can definitely see him look around at 2:25. This looks pretty real to me.
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Miscellanea
04/13/09

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"Oh, and Q - bring Little Nellie with you, will you?"
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scroggzilla raids again
04/13/09

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Needs more autogyro

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Ash78, cube farmer
04/13/09

@SCROGGZILLA vs. Diddles McGee!!: Beat me to it. For a hombuilt, an autogyro is supposedly much simpler and safer among the various helicopter-type designs.
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scroggzilla raids again
04/13/09

@Ash78: Plus you can call it "little nellie"

+ Watch video

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Skunky
04/13/09

@SCROGGZILLA vs. Diddles McGee!!: Needs more missles.
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scroggzilla raids again
04/13/09

@Skunky: and flamethrowers, aerial mines, air to air rockets, machine guns...
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Mobius
04/13/09

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Da Vinci, Sikorski, Chen. Rotorheads to the max.

PS By now a couple more domains would've been added to the Great Firewall of China.
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aSoundofSleep-less nights
04/13/09

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First the scrap metal F-1 car, now this. Is it just me or am I the only one that thinks the Chinese are getting a little out of control?

This guy is either trying to pay his homage to Darwin or is a master in ingenuity.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
04/13/09

@aSoundofSleep has a bat flying around his office today.: With that large a population, you can bet there are a lot of nutty people who manage to indulge their wacky ideas somehow. Combine that with less government/societal regulation and safety concerns and a healthy dose of good old-fashioned ingenuity and you're bound to come up with a couple examples like this eventually.
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Novaload
04/13/09

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So now he's Wrong Way Rong?
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smalleyxb122
04/13/09

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Well how about that! I didn't even know that I wanted to build a helicopter.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
04/13/09

@smalleyxb122: There are many things none of us ever knew we wanted until we were exposed to them through the glory of the intarwebz. I hate when someone links me to anything from thinkgeek.com or techbargains.com, because I end up finding all sorts of cool things I never knew I wanted. Same goes for Instructables with building things, and for Tastespotting for cooking. I don't have time for all these things, internet! Why do you torment me so?
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Ash78, cube farmer
04/13/09

@Leeeeena is dancing with the star!: And 10 years ago, I assumed that by now we'd all be Renaissance Men and Women, all of us possessing an incredible array of skill and expertise in a very wide range of topics.

But we're all still a bunch of idiots. We just know how to find all the really funny YouTube cat videos.
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How Wankelin' Got His Sig Back
04/13/09

@Leeeeena is dancing with the star!: [www.woot.com]
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
04/13/09

@Wankelin' For A Rotary: Stop it! I'm a broke college student - I can barely afford my school supplies! Ack!
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How Wankelin' Got His Sig Back
04/13/09

@Leeeeena is dancing with the star!: And the deal they offer changes [i]every day[/i]...
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smalleyxb122
04/13/09

@Wankelin' For A Rotary: I used to check woot every day, but that waned as I found that they were very seldom selling something that I wanted. I'll admit to a few failed attempts to purchase a Bag O' Crap, though.
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
04/13/09

@Wankelin' For A Rotary: *covers eyes* La! La! La! La! I can't read that! La! La! La! La!
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tekdemon
04/13/09

@Ash78: @Leeeeena is dancing with the star!:

Damn you, now that you've mentioned a site I never heard of before (Tastespotting) and caused me to waste more time I have to get you back with Allrecipes.com and Slickdeals. Now you will have even more crap you have to cook and more crap you have to buy. HAHAHAHAHAH!!!
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
04/13/09

@tekdemon: Noooooooooooo!!!! I can't take any more, please! I'm already pulling all-nighters just to keep up with my current workload, I can't take on any more!
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A strolling player got drunk and
04/13/09

@smalleyxb122: Heh. Your comment is exactly my history with Woot.

I did get a kickass, loud-as-all-get-out portable speaker for twelve buck, though.
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averyrm
04/13/09

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He may have a loophole, as plane-folk are heard to remark, "Helicopters don't fly, they're just so ugly the Earth repels them." Reading the fine print FTW
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engineerd
04/13/09

@averyrm: Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission.

Helicopters don't fly, they fall...with style.
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Skunky
04/13/09

@averyrm: The way I heard it, it's "Helicopters don't fly, they scare away the ground." The version you had I usually hear applied to the A-10.
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IN THE FACE!
04/13/09

@Skunky: Ah, the A-10 such an effective weapon that the military finally retired it because it was too cheap to operate...

Well I guess I never heard for certain, there might be a few squadrons still hanging on...
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IN THE FACE!
04/13/09

@bpapa9013 - Is now an ego maniac thanks to his new star ->: cheap=inexpensive
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Thrashy, perpetual Minardi
04/13/09

@Duke engineerd von Prandtl: By that logic, Chuck Norris should be the fastest helicopter known to man.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
04/13/09

@Archduke Stübaxle von Thrashenheim: Obviously, you've forgotten the lessons learned in that fine documentary program, Airwolf
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A strolling player got drunk and
04/13/09

@A slanting playuh: I fucking love Airwolf
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A strolling player got drunk and
04/13/09

@A slanting playuh: No, seriously

[achewood.com]
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engineerd
04/13/09

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Rong did it right.

I had a professor in college who was building his own airplane. He had it pretty much built (imagine an egg with a huge wing and a pusher-prop run off a 25 hp engine) when he realized he needed to learn how to fly. He tried getting the flight instructors to teach him and they all refused. One day in class another professor, who had his pilots license walked in to get something, and my professor asked he could learn from him. The professor that walked in said, "I've see the way you drive. I'm not getting in an airplane with you."

I never did find out if he ever flew it. I'm kind of glad I was gone by the time he had it "flyable".
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Alfisted
04/13/09

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Mad props to you, creator of the Chenook.
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
04/13/09

@Alfisted: Nice!
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Skunky
04/13/09

@Alfisted: Real Chinese Heroes....
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Steve Neill
04/13/09

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That man is my hero. Then again, my girlfriend is Chinese, and if she told me to stop working on cars cause the motor stalled, and I hit a parked car, I would likely tell her to ***k off and leave her ass.
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robai
04/13/09

@Steve Neill: Jerk.
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Steve Neill
04/13/09

@robai:

I just have my priorities in order.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
04/13/09

@Steve Neill: Uh huh. After reading your comments, I'm pretty sure if someone were to get your girlfriend to read Jalopnik she'd be leaving your ass pretty fast. Hope that car sale and wedding work out for you before it happens.
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mzs
04/13/09

@Leeeeena is dancing with the star!: Whoa I read through two pages of his comments and though I have had my own low points, this guy's every comment is misogynistic. He must hate himself. Don't worry about getting his girlfriend to read jalopnik, she doesn't read, since she does not exist.

Somebody should ban this tool.
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Steve Neill
04/13/09

@mzs:

Whoa... All I said was that I would choose a car over a girl.

So maybe it's a little unorthodox, sure. But that would suggest that I have massive respect for the people who spend their lives perfecting a perfect piece of machinery.

My girlfriend is an amazing girl, and I love her with all my heart. She and I happen to feel the same way about cars. We both want the same cars, in the same places, at the same time.

It's one of the reasons why we don't doubt that we're perfect for each other.

I don't hate myself, I'm just being brutally honest. And I forget a very vital point in my first post, and that is:

"and I hit a parked car, and she THREATENED to leave me for it, I would tell her to ***k off and leave her ass."

If money is more important to her then my well being, then of course I would leave her.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
04/14/09

@Steve Neill: You are so full of shit I don't even know where to start. Let me just juxtapose two sentences from your last comment for you.

"Whoa... All I said was that I would choose a car over a girl."

"If money is more important to her then my well being, then of course I would leave her."

Do you see what's wrong with this picture? I really hope I don't need to spell it out further than that. I also sort of doubt your fiancee would appreciate you telling a board full of horny guys that she screams so loud she shakes pots off windowsills, which is damn near impossible anyway. Don't even get me started on the Korean models comments you've made...
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Ash78, cube farmer
04/13/09

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And now we all know the difference between Wright and Rong. Touching story.
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Scandinavian Flick
04/13/09

@Ash78: Ooh, nice catch, and well played...
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engineerd
04/13/09

@Ash78: Well played, good sir.
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Skunky
04/13/09

@Ash78: Very much CoTD here, good eye.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
04/13/09

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What a Jalop! Nice work Chen. Well, you may have promised to never fly again, but perhaps you can turn your talents, and welder, towards other horizons? Is the Chinese F1 team starting to hire yet?
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