Chinese Farmer Builds Homemade Helicopter

I was going to call hoax on this one.
But on second thought, I'm gonna call it Awesome instead!

That has FAIL (bùjigé) written all over it.

Small motor, small rotor, no cyclic control, heavy frame, and a clueless designer/pilot. I wonder why the Chinese government is worried.

Yeah this is probably a hoax. Given the weight and what the rotors are made of, I doubt it gets off the ground. If it does, there is the problem of control -- I doubt there is a way for the pilot to adjust the tail rotor speed, or to change the attitude of the rotors. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen..

if it is even possible, he needs to buy a parachute man.. flimsy piece of equipment..

This looks like something the professor on Gilligan's Island would have built!

How do you mean Fail...?
I go to Mars and the outer planets every night in my Dreamship...!

Compare the power output of a modern motorcycle engine to the units Sikorski and his contemoporaries were using and it's probably possible.

I just love the idea of the Chinese government getting upset about safety.

He's got a nice fantasy toy, but it'll never get off the ground (well, it might flop over just enough to spray shrapnel across those neighbors croweded around....)

I like the little caster wheels that look like they came off an old shopping cart

@skipweasel.

Sikorsky's first cyclic control helicopter was the VS300 and had a three-blade 28ft rotor and a 75hp motor (which was soon upgraded to a 90hp motor).

I'm pretty sure the Chinese dream machine doesn't come close to either of those spec's.

True, but it's a lot smaller! That little engine looks like a 250cc, so 40hp is probably around right.

After reviewing this case again, I think the Chinese government has every reason to get nervous- This dude is not the first one by a long shot and he certainly won't be the last that builds something to lift off the face of this planet. Especially the Chinese always have been incredibly good at inventing stuff and using it as if it were nothing. Before you know it, every Chinese who ever tinkered with the Chinese equivalents of Lego or Meccano and who has seen even one single picture of the inner works of aircraft, builds one behind the chickens and tries to take off. And if only 10% of 1 billion(?) Chinese do that... Well, immagine the mess that Chinese traffic-control faces then...

Somehow I doubt the Chinese government is worried about his safety, more likely he's too much of a free thinker.

hey, i have this bridge i have been itching to sell.....

i don't really believe this stuff will fly but i guess there might be some thing going on with the Chinese