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Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, seen here, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts(AFP/File/Pius Utomi)

1 posted on 10/22/2007 8:29:51 AM PDT by martin_fierro
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I’ll ride in a homemade Nigerian helicopter right after my Nigerian retirement bank account pays off.


2 posted on 10/22/2007 8:30:48 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro; Aeronaut; leadpenny; Squantos

Yeah, I’m flying on that! NOT!


5 posted on 10/22/2007 8:37:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: martin_fierro

Smart kid.


6 posted on 10/22/2007 8:37:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: martin_fierro

something everyone should do once in their lives, lol


7 posted on 10/22/2007 8:38:55 AM PDT by GeronL
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Has anyone seen this thing fly? Or is that evidence stashed with Nigerian oil ministers money?


11 posted on 10/22/2007 8:43:16 AM PDT by ladtx ( "I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top." - - Will Rogers)
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To: martin_fierro

My brother and I built an airplane using a motorcycle engine and scrap parts. Mom wouldn’t let us try it - he was 12 and I was 10...


12 posted on 10/22/2007 8:45:34 AM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: martin_fierro

The Wright Brothers started with less! Good for him !


13 posted on 10/22/2007 9:03:53 AM PDT by llevrok (Born a ham and never cured.)
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For a four-seater it is a big aircraft, measuring twelve metres (39 feet) long, seven metres high by five wide.

Okay, so the guy is 15ft tall and the seats are 7ft wide each.

24 posted on 10/22/2007 4:54:12 PM PDT by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
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