FLYING HIGH: Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi
A 24-YEAR-OLD physics student from Nigeria has built a working helicopter out of old car and bike parts.
Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi spent eight months building the model, using the money he makes from repairing cellphones and computers.
While some of the parts have been sourced from a crashed 747, the chopper contains parts from cars and bikes.
The 12-meter-long aircraft, which has never flown above a height of seven feet, is powered by a secondhand 133 horsepower engine from a Honda Civic.
In the basic cockpit there are two Toyota car seats, with a couple more in the cabin behind.
Controls contain an ignition button, an accelerator lever to control vertical thrust and a joystick that provides balance and bearing.
A camera beneath the chopper connected to a small screen on the dash gives the pilot ground vision, and he communicates via a small transmitter.
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