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Fancy your own personal flying machine?

Some innovative guy put together a few pieces of scrap metal and an engine and this is what he came up with. Apparently it can fly up to a height of over one hundred metres and cost only RMB20,000 to put together. Hell, that's even cheaper than a car! Maybe one day, just one day, all of us will be flying in one of these to get to work?

Follow the jump for another video that offers you a better look at what the machine looks like. Not the most chic-looking, we admit, but hey, it works.

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By Kenneth Tan in on June 21, 2008 5:14 PM

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  • shangpudi

    The next Shanghai Daily title: "China becomes world's number one producer of homemade death trap".

    Half a year ago i read an article about "Number one producer of helicoptors" something something.

  • skyline5k

    Oops... bad use of words. He didn't really "invent" anything. Let's just replace that with "build".

  • skyline5k

    In that case, the question is, which did the guy invent for 20,000 RMB? I'll get to work on my own after I get back from vacation!

  • Les Izmore

    The first machine is probably a gyrocopter, free rotating blades provide lift with a pusher propeller system. That's why it takes off by running along a road. He's taking his hands off the stick to show how stable it is. The second is definitely a different machine and it's a helicopter.

  • chocoball

    Those videos are of 2 different machines. The first is a helicopter, while the second one is a fixed-wing airplane...a home-made ultralight of some kind.

  • BOSOX

    The sticks seemed to shake an awful lot that he had keep his hands off of it from time to time. But hey, it's a flying machine no doubt!

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