15 INSANE Homemade Helicopters - BAD IDEA 

Scratch designed and built is not the same as these kits.

Do you really want to build one of those Nigerian homemade helicopter? Kits are in fact considered home made because you assemble it, not fabricate the components. If you are not a machinist it aint gonna happen.

@@johnjennings8085 Kits are the safest way to go but, you have to follow the instructions 100%.

@@av8tor261 This is America since when do men follow instructions? LOL Seriously I have helped on a few homebuilt projects. Here is what can happen if you don't follow instructions. A gentleman i knew built a Rutan Vareze in his basement. In the manual it says if you do not have space that is open such as a garage be sure to measure the area to ensure you can complete the structure and transport to an assembly area. Well... this guy did not complete this step. He tried to remove the fuselage from the basement and boom it was 2 inches wider than the door and too tall to clear the ceiling in the stairwell. So we advised him if you remove the basement window and 1 row of block he could dig out and pass it through the hole. He would not listen and hired a backhoe to dig out the basement wall. 13,000 dollars later he got it out. At that point it would have been cheaper and smarter to cut it up and start over before you call in a backhoe. As you can guess there was fallout from this. He is now divorced as a result of his stupidity because he did not read and follow instructions. You could die from not following the directions exactly! So consider the size and scope of an aircraft before building one. Note ,after this situation was over we told him he was on his own. With his lack of judgement skills we did not want to be on the liability end of it crashing when he built it wrong. Work smart not hard.

@@johnjennings8085 I call these guys, "self proclaimed experts." They usually end up dead or killing someone.

Is it actually Charlie Sheen?

@@dakotaritter532 is it heck, it was a Joke !

Didn't notice til I read this now I can't stop hearing it

Dang you james now its all i can hear.

😂

I'm the only aircraft mechanic in this town bud. I don't believe you!!!! Derp

@@alexsozansky lol

High noon boys lol. Draw and pull your A and P s out. For sure click bait but hell they'd get just as many being truthful A kit copter is just as interesting. Anything bought as a kit off a ligit comp can't be un-air worthy. Now let's join forces and build a truly home made ship. I can do sheet metal fab and avionics lol.

as long as it dont come with a Chinese translated instruction book right ;)

Yup, the only dangerous one in the video is the last one.

Iiiii

Arthur is the real deal

sorry to hear about your great uncle. but within aviation gryocopters (modern ones) have have the safest track record because the rotors don't need a motor to spin. but that sucks still

He was one ☝️ f the early to build back then .

Gyaro

Sorry about your Uncle but yes once you get the bug for something you MUST act or it will haunt you forever. I love Skydiving I have jumped over 500 times. I'm in my 50s. I learned back when they gave you a 10 minute course. Tossed on your chute. Took you up and jumped out on your own. The VERY first time the cords o. My chute were tangled bigtime. Thankfully I was high enough I could peddle out of it. Then I enjoyed the ride down and was hooked from that moment on. Enjoy life take some risks and have that feeling of what it feels like out of your comfort zone.

I always wanted a bensen gyro!

"Careful and judicious testing" led the FAA to revoke the R22 type certificate.

Could you imagine how terrifying the first flight would be?

Because a lot could go wrong some kid made his own on a video I seen a while back and he got decapitated in the seat from one of the propellers

@@MrShobar Because of the The Delamination of the blades but look now they’ve sold god knows how many.

Because the guy that made this video is a click bait BASTARD!

100% agreed. If it can't autorotate I'm not getting in it!

Lots of people are going to die

@@loganthesaint true, just one of those little motors, or program give shit and you dead

Moler sky car has not done it yet. I don't trust thrust only propulsion. Hmmm. Self flying quadcopter. Think to self Tesla self driving car crashes into guardrail and kills driver. Definatley don't and will never trust self driving anything. Airliners still have pilots for a reason.

They have a short range, that's the main drawback. 30 minutes flight time and you're done. There is also no safety feature. If your flight controller died or there was a fire (LiPo batteries FTW) then you'd become a meteorite pretty quickly. Even helicopters can autorotate to 'glide' relatively safely to the ground. Quadcopters have no such mechanism. Quad is too few anyway, you would want there to be 8+ rotors to allow for redundancy and fault tolerance. If a motor goes out you want to have most of your thrust still available. A quadcopter with a motor down _can_ fly if the FC knows how to compensate, but you lose lots of thrust and stability. I can see quadcopters being used for racing, much in the way micro FPV drones are now. It would be hella dangerous but you know there would be daredevils that love it. Akin to wingsuiting but with expensive hardware. A bit like 'pod racing' in Star Wars. High Gs, manual controls, fast reflexes, tricks, stunts, and zooming through narrow tunnels, that would be the magic of it.

@@johnsmithe4656 Include parachutes with them.

Except the case of the v22 Osprey.

Well its Charlie sheen... he isn't exactly known in aviation besides getting high 😂

Charlie sheen has impressive knowledge on many subjects I've noticed.

Same place we are right now. There were many people working on controlled flight at that time. Glen Curtiss was hot on their heels and quickly surpassed their developments.

Corey ~ At present {jan2022] prices in the Great White North (Canada) are $8.00 a gallon in most provinces and cities .

I can buy wood, screws & hinges. Then make a wardrobe in my workshop. I could also go to IKEA and buy a wardrobe kit and assemble it in my workshop. Can you work out which one is “Homemade” and which one is not “Homemade”?

Lol, no it isn’t.

Yes -- and most home-built decapitators aren't available with such festive colors.

some of them, more specifically the ones without enclosures, are indeed a bad idea .. if you can reach the blades while they are spinning and you are sitting in the pilots chair, it's a no-no

Your in school complaining about "people talking when don't have an education"? Maybe wait till you graduate to say that, if you do graduate

@@kendallevans4079 what he is saying is true tho, if you do it properly then something like getting decapitated by your own helicopter can be prevented. you dont even need a degree to know that its safe as long as you know what you are doing. especially since he's studying engineering where "if you dont know what youre doing, dont mess with it" is applied everytime.

For real?..lol

Yeah -- that darned Pacific always gets ya' when you're not looking.

idk... remember Newton? lol

@@joseph-mariopelerin7028 tf lmao? Im not sure you understand what im saying. these are all kits, or production models (not homemade) and they are all verified to be working and therefore not bad ideas. research and planning went into them. = neither bad idea, nor homemade

Im just saying… even the million dollars one with a real engine and a real pilot crashes all the time… a play doh helicopter kit ? Newton will take care of it… or the new clothes line… or a dead leaf falling

oh yeah! and after the third flight ending up quadriplegic because of that stupid new cloths line... 😂

Gas stations wouldn't have helicopter fuel. But generally ya, you have to land at an airport. Different places have different rules, and when you have control/own a helicopter. . . Sort of implies that you would have the money to land wherever you want. Just how much are you willing to pay for parking. P.S - most of the "helicopter" kits actually fall under the classification of an ultralight.

You mad, bro?

What do they do , give you the "idea" of flight , and you figure it out on your own from there?