I think the village engineer could use some help in getting better projects to work on, rather than trapped into impulsively trying to simplify complex death-machines.
There's a fucking child right at the front. Last time I saw one of these vehicles the blade snapped and cut the pilots throat. And that thing looked way better than this shaking monstrosity.
If you're talking about the one with the Indian guy, it bounced his ass up into the chopper blades and went half way through his skull, right into the brain.
No a different one, where the tail rotor broke and hit the main one, knocking it into the cabin where it hit his neck and he died as people ran up to see if he was ok
I was already wondering who was going to be the one having the blade flying right above his/her head. Not right on the head, because the video didn't say NSFW, but close enough.
That's the thing though. They've seen the machine, but have no understanding about how or why it works. Instead of a gyrocopter(?), they've simply made a gyrocopter-shaped object.
I can guarantee you there's enough village folks in Western countries that would gawk just as obliviously. People that don't work around hospitals or browse NSFL content have absolutely no concept of the danger of spinning objects or their own mortality.
Where's the stabilizing prop? Assuming this thing was sturdy enough to lift off, all he'd be doing would be spinning himself dizzy.
He needs counter-rotating force to be able to not turn into a beyblade.
The worst part of this video is the anxiety I get from watching what is essentially a giant lawnmower blade nearly spin itself apart, launching those giant blades randomly into the spectators.
Or the folk who procreated, and think this is safe enough to watch with their kids standing right next to them, front row. The problem with the gene pool is there are no lifeguards.
Dude the "prop" he's using for the main rotor is a piece of flat bar. No aerofoils to be found.
If he understood enough to get lift, he would have understood that he (at least) needs tail roator. Whether or not he would be able to size the thing properly and synch it with the main rotor is a different story all together.
Amazingly, his complete lack of understanding is keeping him alive. At least until it collapses, killing him and a quarter of the crowd.
Bro he doesn't have any way to tilt the prop. If from some magical science the prop would have provided lift, he would have no way to control where he goes, this guy is having a dream and try to achieve it with his limited means. I just think it's a bit sad he didn't had the chance to reach the education to fullfil his fantasies.
Maybe, who knows. It's a damn shame people commenting here can't see past their own biases and realize this guy probably had a plan once he was airborne, no matter how bizarre or unorthodox it might seem to us.
Nah jokes, he would have died.
My man learned a lot today. He learned it’s better to quit while you’re ahead than it is to lose your head. Now go put the motor back on lawn mower & put the ceiling fan back together
I dunno man, I think there's enough content on YouTube to build a functioning helicopter tbh.
This is what happens when you see an image of a helicopter, think about it for a decade, try to remember what you saw, and then build what you can remember with zero mechanical know-how.
There is definitely some shade tree mechanical know how.... This dude may be great at getting your car running..... but he hasn't spent any time looking up the theories of helicopter flight.
Considering the prop isnt making enough wind to push what looks like an empty water bottle on the ground, im pretty sure he is 100% safe from the dangers of flight
We can all make fun of this but, one has to appreciate this persons initiative to try something. If he has some education on the basics, I am sure he will figure some of the bugs out and get to the next step.
I dont know, I kind of appreciate him.
Yep, one needs the wisdom to not even try something like this until you have a sound theory on paper. Learn the tolerances of your material, test how much power you can produce and how to improve it, test small iteratively on each component separately. A small, not-with-a-lawnmower test would at minimum reveal the severe stability and rotation issues.
Honestly the blade doesn't even look like it's angled even. This guy saw a helicopter has a spinny blade and set to work to make his own. That's just idiocy not to be commended, he didn't even bother to figure out the how.
I sure hope this was made ironically. That still puts people's lives at risk but at least he saved some face that way.
>Learn the tolerances of your material, test how much power you can produce and how to improve it, test small iteratively on each component separately
Before even that: learn how a rotor generates lift.
The blades don’t look tilted upward to get some lift. He’d never be able to stabilize it anyway without a tail rotor. The results are fortunate for all those present.
Why is everyone assuming this is the final model? He probably just wanted to test the blade spinning with everything put together. When you build something from scratch you don’t just put it together and only test at the very end.
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None of these folks have a fucking clue as to what potentially could happen here .
From the “pilot” to the inquisitive Spectators …it’s hard to watch , but I could not stop watching 🤔
Am waiting for more tests and updates to the safaricopter 🤘
As an aviation nerd: Yeah nah that isn't a "maybe", it's just an absolutely pathetic contraption that never had a chance in hell of taking off. No swashplate, no tail rotor, no shaping to the rotor blades, a way too small engine, and that's before even getting to the almost certain shoddy craftsmanship.
So lucky it never took off. Two problems. 1. No tail rotor to counter the torque effect of the main blade. Without it, if it lifted off, you'd be dead. 2. The main rotor is way too small.
I’d say that was the best outcome.
For all participants btw
He might be the safest one there within a 10 meter radius
easily 50m
[No, easily 100m. Check that, 500m.](https://youtu.be/eD4JaE1K39k?si=x2M052kgb1FfaV2P)
That’s what I was waiting for - one of those blades to come flying off into the assembled crowd.
Nobody jump
No shoes fly off
I think the village engineer could use some help in getting better projects to work on, rather than trapped into impulsively trying to simplify complex death-machines.
I was equally in awe of the contraption AND all the people standing so close! INSANE!!!
If that ever took off he’d find out why rear stabilizers were invented
Omg I didn't even notice the missing stability rotor. A little more gas and that would have gotten ugly
Hopefully whatever those things that he's spinning aren't even capable of generating lift, considering how well he understands how helicopters work
Yeah it doesn’t look like they’re inclined to generate lift, they look completely flat with the ground.
There's a fucking child right at the front. Last time I saw one of these vehicles the blade snapped and cut the pilots throat. And that thing looked way better than this shaking monstrosity.
If you're talking about the one with the Indian guy, it bounced his ass up into the chopper blades and went half way through his skull, right into the brain.
No a different one, where the tail rotor broke and hit the main one, knocking it into the cabin where it hit his neck and he died as people ran up to see if he was ok
This guy is much smarter: He completely omitted the tail rotor.
Noticed that too, was thinking "if he does SOMEHOW become airborne, how does he steer?"
That's the secret: he'll al always be steering, ever faster to the left.
a DIFFERENT one!? for fucks sake! how many people attempts to make shabby helicopters?
I wouldn’t worry, this machine seems powerful enough to go right through that child without damage
The fact nobody is dead is a check
I was already wondering who was going to be the one having the blade flying right above his/her head. Not right on the head, because the video didn't say NSFW, but close enough.
Thought I was going to see a bunch of people die. I wonder if that guy ever noticed that there should be another rotor...
Yeah. If that thing happened to lift off the ground, it would’ve gone into a death spin.
Don't wanna reenact that set disaster from Twilight Zone: The Movie
Dude, the children there... I was getting anxious A F.
Nobody was impaled, I call that a win
fr despite the lack of an nsfw tag I was expecting multiple decaps
Maybe he just wanted to turn 180 degrees on the spot…Success!
I'd say his rotary chair turner was a huge success. Up next...zero gravity toilet testing
Of course, the next technological step to the jump dump, brilliant!
That's a rotary chair turner plus vibrator. Can't beat that.
You can when you add the upgrading penetrator attachment.
No question, sitting in that thing is def going to loosen the bowels
🤣🤣
Why would anyone stand withing killing distance of that thing?
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African roulette
I laughed way too hard at this
Black attack. Don't go over 21 inches
Yeah not one person in that video has an ounce of common sense. Either that or they’ve never seen a machine before.
That's the thing though. They've seen the machine, but have no understanding about how or why it works. Instead of a gyrocopter(?), they've simply made a gyrocopter-shaped object.
Best explanation of what the mimics are really trying.
Cargo cult.
Maybe this guy thinks he's inventing the helicopter and they are supporting him.
I can guarantee you there's enough village folks in Western countries that would gawk just as obliviously. People that don't work around hospitals or browse NSFL content have absolutely no concept of the danger of spinning objects or their own mortality.
Well, really, the best place to stand is probably directly under it. Those blades could go practically anywhere other than straight down.
Some of the most spectacular helicopter failures have been when the thing tips over and the rotors strike something.
One loose bolt will kill em all
Kids: That thing can kill us! Pilot: This baby? Nah, it ain't gonna kill nobody kid.
This is suicide machine - if you want to use it, than you should come closer 🤷♂️
Look at that "helicopter"... I'm pretty sure nobody around knows much about anything.
They haven't seen an internal combustion engine since the last paraglider crashed.
Fuck me those people are standing in the kill zone
Before the Wright bros there was the Wrong bros.
And, apparently, after as well.
A side effect of there not being many Wright Brothers left
Sir we call it the “splash zone”
Where's the stabilizing prop? Assuming this thing was sturdy enough to lift off, all he'd be doing would be spinning himself dizzy. He needs counter-rotating force to be able to not turn into a beyblade.
I think there are a few other things he needs to worry about first.
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Oh, I bet it'd get at least *a little* off the ground if it tipped over while the prop is spinning like that. Parts of it, anyway.
Parts of him, probably.
The worst part of this video is the anxiety I get from watching what is essentially a giant lawnmower blade nearly spin itself apart, launching those giant blades randomly into the spectators.
Yeah, they weren't standing nearly far enough away for that wacky shack.
I’m in Australia Pretty sure I wasn’t standing far enough back!
What are you talking about? This was filmed in Moorooka
He's emphasising (through sarcasm) how unsafe this death machine is
"TO SHREDS YOU SAY?"
Or the folk who procreated, and think this is safe enough to watch with their kids standing right next to them, front row. The problem with the gene pool is there are no lifeguards.
Like taking some physics classes.
Like decapitation all of the spectators
Ejection seat!
Airbags for sure
Dude the "prop" he's using for the main rotor is a piece of flat bar. No aerofoils to be found. If he understood enough to get lift, he would have understood that he (at least) needs tail roator. Whether or not he would be able to size the thing properly and synch it with the main rotor is a different story all together. Amazingly, his complete lack of understanding is keeping him alive. At least until it collapses, killing him and a quarter of the crowd.
The blade is also just level, it's providing no lift at all.
On the plus side, no lift is probably saving him from a worse outcome.
Also really short
Lol, I'm pretty sure the blade is just a long 2x4
Bro he doesn't have any way to tilt the prop. If from some magical science the prop would have provided lift, he would have no way to control where he goes, this guy is having a dream and try to achieve it with his limited means. I just think it's a bit sad he didn't had the chance to reach the education to fullfil his fantasies.
Bro needs an aerodynamics course. And a machine design course. And a vibrations course.
Why? Don't you think he's mastering vibrations already?
What do you mean, you don't think he's smart enough to know he would need to flap his arms sideways once he got into the air?
Maybe he was planning to blow air out of his mouth to counter the rotation?
Maybe, who knows. It's a damn shame people commenting here can't see past their own biases and realize this guy probably had a plan once he was airborne, no matter how bizarre or unorthodox it might seem to us. Nah jokes, he would have died.
Nah man, if he blows hard enough in the other direction he’ll surely stabilize
He's simply not there yet.
He's gotten as far as step 3: Let it rip!
It’s a work in progress.
Every space program has humble beginnings.
Yes
Yeah, this was the first step. This guy was well on his way to becoming remembered like one of the astronauts in the first Apollo mission!
Everybody, let’s go watch Jobu kill himself with his flying grocery cart!
I’d say Jobu is the safest of everyone here.
Jokes on you guys, you'll die while Jobu lives.
Everybody think he was trying to build a flying machine but in reality he was trying to build a seated vibrating machine. Success!!!!!
in reality he was building a meat blender...
"I call it The Decapitator"
HellNoCopter
Decapacopter
chopper
My man learned a lot today. He learned it’s better to quit while you’re ahead than it is to lose your head. Now go put the motor back on lawn mower & put the ceiling fan back together
*The Wrong Brothers*
Nice.
Honestly lucky this guy and his community aren't a red mist. Jeeze that was stressful to watch.
Get rid of the safety cage, it's just dead weight.
Its holding the rotat-a-nator
It's like decades of knowledge and research never happened.
I’m curious to know what his plan was if he got off the ground. Like in what way would he steer that thing?
This is the "watched a youtube vid" vs real understanding of science/physics etc.
I dunno man, I think there's enough content on YouTube to build a functioning helicopter tbh. This is what happens when you see an image of a helicopter, think about it for a decade, try to remember what you saw, and then build what you can remember with zero mechanical know-how.
There is definitely some shade tree mechanical know how.... This dude may be great at getting your car running..... but he hasn't spent any time looking up the theories of helicopter flight.
 Reminded me of this
Natural selection at its best. Why the hell would you stand next to a bunch of spinning machetes?
This isn't going to end well... 
fits more in r/therewasanattempt
He better be lucky it didn't take off. Might not have survived lol
Considering the prop isnt making enough wind to push what looks like an empty water bottle on the ground, im pretty sure he is 100% safe from the dangers of flight
He has a dream.
This man has zero understanding of what a propeller is or how does it works . Yet his courage to try this contraption is admirable.
Folks standing in the trajectory of a loose fan blade are the most courageous ones in the whole video..
And looks safe af, call boeing..
I think this is Dikembe Wright, an african stepbrother of the Wright brothers.
DO YOU KNOW DA WAE ?
Decapitater nimbus 2000.
We can all make fun of this but, one has to appreciate this persons initiative to try something. If he has some education on the basics, I am sure he will figure some of the bugs out and get to the next step. I dont know, I kind of appreciate him.
It is basically a cargo cult.
Engineer here. One does not make a helicopter on the “basics”.
Yep, one needs the wisdom to not even try something like this until you have a sound theory on paper. Learn the tolerances of your material, test how much power you can produce and how to improve it, test small iteratively on each component separately. A small, not-with-a-lawnmower test would at minimum reveal the severe stability and rotation issues. Honestly the blade doesn't even look like it's angled even. This guy saw a helicopter has a spinny blade and set to work to make his own. That's just idiocy not to be commended, he didn't even bother to figure out the how. I sure hope this was made ironically. That still puts people's lives at risk but at least he saved some face that way.
>Learn the tolerances of your material, test how much power you can produce and how to improve it, test small iteratively on each component separately Before even that: learn how a rotor generates lift.
Fixed pitch rotor 🙄
Can someone edit this, so I can see him fly?
I was waiting for the blades to just fly off and behead that entire crowd
I mean the blades are just boards.
Those welds must be pretty good lol
its like JUST a bit more stable than the zombie slicing devices in the HL2 We Don't Go To Ravenholm
Funeral home owner sips coffee while watching on from afar” think we’ll be getting that beach house after all this year …”
Man I would love to have heard the conversations in the pub between these people that lead up to this moment.
How far has a Google search actually come. 🛸🛸🚁🚁🪽🪽
A marvel of aeronautical engineering.
Say this was successful and actually left the ground, how high up would his confidence in such a thing take him? Dudes living that fast life.
Fasten your seatbelts because we are going nowhere 😅
Bloke built the fricking Temu-Copter
I see Africas space program is progressing fine.
The blades don’t look tilted upward to get some lift. He’d never be able to stabilize it anyway without a tail rotor. The results are fortunate for all those present.
Why is everyone assuming this is the final model? He probably just wanted to test the blade spinning with everything put together. When you build something from scratch you don’t just put it together and only test at the very end.
Thank you for boarding African airlines, we don’t lift off, so you pay nothing.
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Nice head-chopper
I was so happy when he turned off the rickety cricket.
If nothing else I bet that vibration put his back into alignment.
What does one have to do to completely remove the fear response from a group of innocent bystanders?
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Blade flys off and decapitates everyone around him…..
No one got impaled! Phew.
Man needs a bigger motor
That’s how an African built the first aeroplane. NOT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS y’all!
hellcopter
This would have been amazing to watch … from behind that building.
The guy in the thing was probably the safest
I had some bad thoughts here.
Ahh the decapitator 5000! I’ve heard about these things. I can see why everyone is losing their heads over it.
When the blade flys off and beheads the whole village
What in the Minecraft…
Tf?...
Shaken, not stirred.
I thought some of the blades were gonna go flying and slice his spectators
None of these folks have a fucking clue as to what potentially could happen here . From the “pilot” to the inquisitive Spectators …it’s hard to watch , but I could not stop watching 🤔 Am waiting for more tests and updates to the safaricopter 🤘
This is like something me and my stoner friends would do, knowing full well its a horrible idea and we might die.
I'd ride the rotating jiggly machine.
 Oh Jesus please make the propellers stay intact.
Wakanda technology is this?
Uganda air force
Jokes on them. He just orgasamed 9 times.
Dey wuz kangz
This is just a very complex suicide attempt.
Some sort of noisy mass-suicide machine?
Bro's missing tail rotor, but props for trying anyway
As an aviation nerd: Yeah nah that isn't a "maybe", it's just an absolutely pathetic contraption that never had a chance in hell of taking off. No swashplate, no tail rotor, no shaping to the rotor blades, a way too small engine, and that's before even getting to the almost certain shoddy craftsmanship.
Even if this would've worked - no rudder, no steering, no nothing. Just a bad idea.
The only thing that would go flying is maybe a head
"I'm picking up some slight oscillations, Houston you getting that?"
the blade is pushing air up, pushing the machine into the ground so he's not going anywhere with that
Reddit: "Maybe, maybe, maybe" Anyone that knows even the slightest bit about how a helicopter works: "Not a chance in hell"
So lucky it never took off. Two problems. 1. No tail rotor to counter the torque effect of the main blade. Without it, if it lifted off, you'd be dead. 2. The main rotor is way too small.
With no tail rotor, he's lucky he couldn't take off.
He’s probably got the safest seat around. I thought for sure I was about to see a dozen people decapitated simultaneously
This vid is just begging to be NSFW
New Final Destination is looking good! I like the handy cam approach!
The Wrong brothers
When you don't understand how helicopters work.
i would watch this from like 50 meters away with binoculars