Video: Kenyan Tinkerer Builds a Plane From Scratch, Aims to Fly Next Week

these guys will be dead soon enough.

Yep. Probably going to take off and nose dive. 50 dead.

no way guys, he researched on the internet. he can't fail

Thats awesome.

I wonder what "propelled" him to do this

Until it flies (doubtful), it's a plane sculpture.

I bet it will barely lift off and crash.

I have a home-made moon lander in my garage. Got the plans from an old issue of PopSci.

Great to see a guy with ambition and a dream, best of luck.

Yeah, they said that they're adding the "finishing touches" to the plane in the photograph- I hope the finishing touches include a pair of wings, otherwise it'll only end in tears.

Beats sitting around watching football, drinking beer, and getting fat...

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sitting around watching football, drinking beer, and getting fat , sounds a lot better then a fire death in home made plane crash.

I love how the test flight is over the city, why the hell not hey? What could go wrong?

Who is the organ donor who's going to fly that fine piece of engineering anyway?

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Wow. Ambitious. Too bad its suicide. There were plenty of people doing what the Wright Brothers did. Only those others did it of cliffs while the brothers found steady winds on fairly soft sand dunes. They could fail and live, and learn while the others just died. This will end fast unless this man has built successful ultralights.

I will follow this. My prediction is that it will fly apart before it reaches take off speed. Hopefully this gentleman will not be up for a Darwin Award at the end of this experiment.

I think Obama should be held responsible for this. He may have given this man some engineering secret to build this plane, you're aware that Obama is planing to move NASA to Kenya... right? that's why he cut NASA's wasteful spending due to it's history of blowing up multi million "experiments" by " Errornutstic" NASA engineers.... FYI, The wright brothers stole from the French and now Boeing has competition in Africa, No more selling of refurbished planes to Africans, while keeping new ones made from African raw materials to Europe and the rest of the world... Go Nderitu !, but dont forget your parachute.

I applaud this guy for his ambition!
But you would think that his time might be better spent finding ways to help his country and his people.
Irrigation, de-salinization, improving crops, etc.

Hopefully, this works..and at worst non-life-threatening crash.

Ya you go dude. I swear if it flies, I will build one. We need more of this kind of crazy in the world....minus the part where he flies it over the city :)

It is sad to see so many people with discouraging thoughts.
Think how much he should be passionate to do this from his money savings. Remember he is not funded by a university lab and state money.

It that better than watching tv or what?

cheers

When reading this article, I was really hoping that this guy would pull it off and make the thing work. After actually seeing the build, I began to remember all of those black and white home built aircraft “fail” videos where the wings fold in, a guy jumping off a rock with a pair of wings on his shoulders, and rockets strapped to the back of a guy which after igniting lit his butt on fire. I love the ambition here, but I am afraid that he will ultimately fail. The nose wheel alone is a huge problem. From its stance, it does not appear to be balanced and looks nose heavy. There is no upward dihedral in the wings and appear to be slightly negative. They are shaped correctly although. The ailerons are separated from the wing entirely. This alone will create a big problem with high-low air pressure and may in fact pose a lift problem given their proximity, low and behind the wings. The control surfaces, elevator and rudder, look a little on the small side given the amount of overall weight of the craft too. I really hope he lives and the thing flies. Apparently this is a source of national pride.

I really hope he succeeds just so all the couch haters can eat their words. At least he's out there doing something, and isn't depending on some corporation to sponsor his ingenuity.

I wish this gentleman total success. What a wonderful dreamer and doer, and I think we all should build planes instead of bombs.

Whatever happens, I hope his costruction methods can inspire a new form of cheap transport for developing nations w/ few good roads. Good luck and best wishes for his ultimate success, bumpy as the path (or in this case, the runway) may be.

Whatever happens, I hope his costruction methods can inspire a new form of cheap transport for developing nations w/ few good roads. Good luck and best wishes for his ultimate success, bumpy as the path (or in this case, the runway) may be.

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