Let's play Airwolf! Redditor ScumbagJanitorGuy made this cute ceiling fan for his son. It was a really cheap building project--just painting and attaching a ceiling fan to a plastic helicopter. Next, he plans to paint th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/22/Homemade-Helicopter-Ceiling-Fan/
During the American Civil War, the United States Navy blockaded Southern ports. Southern engineers set their minds to finding technological ways to break that blockade. For example, they built the first submarine that sa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/19/The-Confederate-Helicopter/[vimeo 35545694](Video Link) Agustín lives in Siguatepeque, Honduras. As a child, polio broke his body and left him nearly immobile. But Agustín had a dream: he would build a helicopter. All he has is junk...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/12/Old-Man-Crippled-by-Polio-Spends-His-Life-Building-a-Helicopter/
It looks like an RC helicopter landed upside down on your ceiling, but it's actually Raffaele Iannello's new ceiling fan. It's a 1:6 scale model of the Hughes/MD 500 mounted on what appears to be a helipad. Do the na...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/03/upside-down-helicopter-is-a-ceiling-fan/(Video Link) Back when I drove a forklift for a living, we had driving contests, like picking up and transporting an egg without breaking it. Helicopter pilots, however, are a more daring breed, as you can see from th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/shaving-with-a-helicopter/(Video Link) Students at the University of Maryland build a functional helicopter that is powered only by human exertion: The X-shaped helicopter, called Gamera, has 42-foot diameter rotors at each end of 60-foot l...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/20/human-powered-helicopter/(Video Link) A deer fell through the ice covering a frozen lake. A helicopter pilot came in close to observe and reasoned that he could use the force generated by his blades to blow the deer onto the ice and to the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/01/skilled-helicopter-pilot-rescues-a-deer/(Video Link) While spending only $5 for the necessary modifications, Douglas Desrochers gave a rocket helicopter blades which it could use to make a smooth descent: The HeliRocket is propelled by a standard model-r...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/22/5-heli-rocket/
Sikorsky Aircraft's prototype X2 helicopter became the world's fastest helicopter when it reached a speed of 225 knots -- 9 more than the previous record set in the 1980s by a Westland Lynx. From the company's press rel...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/04/new-helicopter-promises-to-the-worlds-fastest/
Pictured above is an artist's conception of Sikorsky's new project. The Firefly, if successful, will be a full-sized helicopter that is powered entirely by electricity: The Firefly is built around the existing S-300C...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/full-sized-electric-helicopter/
