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Kenyan Do It Yourself Aviation (Video)
IT consultant and aspiring airplane manufacturer Gabriel Nderitu brings his latest prototype out to the Kenyan countryside for a test flight. If he succeeds, he will be the first man in Kenya to fly a homemade aircraft made out of scrap parts. (www.wimp.com) Plus d'info...
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While I applaud this mans ambition and drive, maybe the best thing to happen this day was the structural failure. It most likely saved his life.
Steel bar stock is probably not the lightest material to use in manufacturing an aircraft.
Stick welding without a helmet. Not good!
That's probably the safest part of this whole enterprise!
There is no "flight" there is a bump in the road that breaks that sad thing, I say thing because in no way can anyone call it an airplane.
While you all talk trash. This is a verry poor man with a dream. He has ambition and pride. He doe st have what we take for granite in our perfect country.
