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FSU
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quote from Denex I believe anybody who is intelligent enough to invent something or create a prototype should have the common sense of knowing how to realise their dream. Even in America, is it the Government that is encouraging these people financially or they are going to corporations that have use for their inventions? Thank you my brother. What is Dangote, the so-called richest Nigerian doing about this? The Helicopter maker is from his state of Kano. So he should take the lead in providing funds. No govt sponsorship for any one, otherwise it should be for everyone. Enough of the double standards. And, (for the doubting thomases) I still maintain that buses (the so-called Igbo jeeps and buses) are more relevant in addressing poverty in Nigeria than a helicopter. Proove me wrong. Muhammed, do yourself a permanent good: find your way to US or France, and get a mind-boggling job with established airplane manufacturers. Your skill is beyond Nigeria at the moment. Except of course you want to be employed in teaching the Nigerian civil avaitaion authority (NCAA) or the Nigerian Airforce how to repair/maintain aircrafts. |
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willy*2
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the Igbos made their Jeep, the Hausas contributed an Helicopter. Yorubas, where are you?!  Yoruba's bi good Administrator, na them go dey organize and coordinate all they parties(o wambe) and celebrations Nigerians will be having, from North to South. That will be their own contribution for Nigerians because they are specialized on that. |
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ayomifull (f)
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One could still try out a car made in 9ja but to put a life in an helicopter made in 9ja? God forbid! that thing takes all the lives in it if anything goes wrong. I can not forget the experience i had with EAS before it eventually took lots of life. The kind of maintainamce culture we have in 9ja is below standard so one would be gambling with his life trying to fly on such locally made flying thing. Good luck to him and i wish him well in his career but i as a person will never fly the helicopter even for free.
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denex
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Nothing more to say on this thread.
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willy*2
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so!!, you pronounced it dead together with the Jihad Helicopter
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naijaborn (m)
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Yoruba's bi good Administrator, na them go dey organize and coordinate all they parties(o wambe) and celebrations Nigerians will be having, from North to South. That will be their own contribution for Nigerians because they are specialized on that.
@willy*2;;;;why tribalize issues   dis is a national thing nd it shuld be addressed as one naija;;;;there's luv in oneness if yu've got any,ok!  Talkin bout naija's helicopter;;;;my pple,it can only get betta!all dat is needed is a platform to xplore wot's d hype bout private/govt intervention;dont both sector hav a role to play in nation building |
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niyyie (m)
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Too bad the AFP report did not include photos. What the guy needs is support from the government. I dont understand why the government does not actively support talents like this guy. What a country! |
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naijaborn (m)
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@niyyie, no badmouth naija govt at all may be yu need 2ask yursef wetin yu n i dey do to helep build dis nation ???evrythin nah govt who be govt sef no be yu n i |
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jethrokay (m)
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The fact is that this gentleman needs an encouragement anyhow it comes, either government or private individual.
If this guy is encouraged with just half of the money Etteh (House of rep speaker) wanted to use to renovate her apartment alone, the guy will produce better helicopters.
What are we gaining from the speaker's apartment renovation. Nothing
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Double N (m)
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If only they would encourage him, So far will he go!This is just a fraction of the talent that abounds in this country but all this ingenuity dies prematurely because of people like Madam Speaker and her Cohorts and every other corrupt public official whose sole aim is to destroy the future of this generation.Its just a pity because this boys dream will die unless our government changes and starts supporting the youth!
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hipernetix
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@posters
Can anyone kindly provide any information on how to get in touch with this guy, we have got a group here in the UK who are interested in the boy for further educational sponsorships and training.
Thank you.
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slim49z (m)
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Hey,That a taxi or a copper? hehe,  |
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Digiman (m)
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This is sooo bad, the news is not a month old yet and some low life is already trying to make money out of it http://www.minut.ee/comments.pl?sid=07/10/22/215239&cid=85001Dearest friend I am doctor Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi. I am a Nigerian helicopter builder. I build helicopters from fallen down Boeing planes and scrap metal and I make a lot of money. Recently our corrupt Nigerian government made it illegal to produce aircraft without outrageous licensing fees. I protested this bill but Nigerian police arrested my account at Nigerian National Bank. Fortunately most of my money is held in International Bank Plc. I have over $140,000,000 on my account there. This is where you come in. I ask you to help me gain access to this money. For this I propose that I wire this money to your account and you send me 65% of this money in cash via mail. I estimate that 10% of this money will be spent on fees and you my friend get the remaining 25% which is $35,000,000 for your service and trust. Remember that this transaction is based on trust and my deep respect in you and your organization. If you accept my proposal then I will need the following information: 1) YOUR FULL NAMES 2) AGE 3) CONTACT ADDRESS 4) OCCUPATION 5) PRIVATE PHONE NUMBER Then I will contact you and we can discuss the details. I look forward to hear from you soonest. Please keep in mind that this transaction must remain confidential at all costs. Regards, Doctor Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi |
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iykrion (m)
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One could still try out a car made in Nigeria but to put a life in an helicopter made in Nigeria? God forbid! that thing takes all the lives in it if anything goes wrong. I can not forget the experience i had with EAS before it eventually took lots of life. The kind of maintainamce culture we have in Nigeria is below standard so one would be gambling with his life trying to fly on such locally made flying thing. Good luck to him and i wish him well in his career but i as a person will never fly the helicopter even for free.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with just one step. Orville and Wilbur Wright certainly started this way. |
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Siena (m)
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A journey of a thousand miles starts with just one step. Orville and Wilbur Wright certainly started this way.
Maybe, maybe not. Are you prepared to be a passenger in that helicopter, on it's "maiden flight"? You'll definitely be famous, and receive a lot of praise, imagine your name emblazoned up there for all the world to see! All depends on if you're alive to see it. On a serious note, encouragement is one thing, in any shape or form, but who'd want to be a guinea pig? Not me! My life's way too precious to risk on an untested venture!  It's one thing to be a passenger in a test car, the most that could happen is the brakes could fail, you may break a leg or two, but no big deal! But imagine a helicopter, at the best of times, they're a fair bit more dangerous than fixed-wing aircraft (aeroplanes). If their engine (s) fail, an experienced pilot could still do a crash landing, as long as the wing flaps are still working, the plane becomes a giant glider. Engine failure in a helicopter is different - no wings to glide with, it'll drop like a stone! The only way is down, and all you'll see is earth rushing up to you! |
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iykrion (m)
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Maybe, maybe not. Are you prepared to be a passenger in that helicopter, on it's "maiden flight"? You'll definitely be famous, and receive a lot of praise, imagine your name emblazoned up there for all the world to see! All depends on if you're alive to see it. On a serious note, encouragement is one thing, in any shape or form, but who'd want to be a guinea pig? Not me! My life's way too precious to risk on an untested venture! It's one thing to be a passenger in a test car, the most that could happen is the brakes could fail, you may break a leg or too, but no big deal! But imagine a helicopter, at the best of times, they're a fair bit more dangerous than fixed-wing aircraft (aeroplanes). If their engine (s) fail, an experienced pilot could still do a crash landing, as long as the wing flaps are still working, the plane becomes a giant glider. Engine failure in a helicopter is different - no wings to glide with, it'll drop like a stone! The only way is down, and all you'll see is earth rushing up to you! With necessary supports, financially and otherwise, he will deliver a safe helicopter for us all. This is just his first attempt. If this is improved upon, I bet in the next few years, a much better thing will emerge. Don't you think so? |
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Digiman (m)
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Maybe, maybe not. Are you prepared to be a passenger in that helicopter, on it's "maiden flight"? You'll definitely be famous, and receive a lot of praise, imagine your name emblazoned up there for all the world to see! All depends on if you're alive to see it. On a serious note, encouragement is one thing, in any shape or form, but who'd want to be a guinea pig? Not me! My life's way too precious to risk on an untested venture! It's one thing to be a passenger in a test car, the most that could happen is the brakes could fail, you may break a leg or too, but no big deal! But imagine a helicopter, at the best of times, they're a fair bit more dangerous than fixed-wing aircraft (aeroplanes). If their engine (s) fail, an experienced pilot could still do a crash landing, as long as the wing flaps are still working, the plane becomes a giant glider. Engine failure in a helicopter is different - no wings to glide with, it'll drop like a stone! The only way is down, and all you'll see is earth rushing up to you! By the time it gets to its maiden filght stage it would have undergone 100's of test flights under controlled conditions with a qualified test pilot at the controls. As for landing a helicopter with a stalled engine it can be done but you have to undergo proper training, every heli pilot learns this during basic training.
But imagine a helicopter, at the best of times, they're a fair bit more dangerous than fixed-wing aircraft (aeroplanes). If their engine (s) fail, an experienced pilot could still do a crash landing, as long as the wing flaps are still working, the plane becomes a giant glider.
This is not true with jets, with no propulsion and no hydraulics and terra firma rushing at you at 9.8 meters per second you might as well start saying your prayers if you can't get the engines started, light fixed wing aircraft on the other hand are much easier to land with a stalled engine, you can still work the control surfaces because they are not hydrulically operated like the big jets. I'd be more comfortable performing an emergency landing in a Cessna anyday, all I need to find is a big enough strip to land on, while making my distress call  . |
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bibiking1
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Okay! I think we have hit the roof and burnt the last of the cables on our long roller coaster debate that of course was fun while it lasted.
Now this is the point where fiction departs reality, and what we see differs from what we HOPE to see,
This man obviously is ingenious, that cannot be taken away from his person.
But where we start DREAMING is when we hope to make something out of this. This is obviously a dead end, This mans so called prototype is not a feasible project to embark upon, both economically and socially.
There are like a million and one hybrid of the helicopter out there in the WORLD, spending money on him to to react history amounts to stupidity and economic foolishness.
As i pointed out earlier, tere are other ways his knowledge can be of use to the Nigerian society, and those are what we should hammer on instead of "pouring spring water into the desert"
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Siena (m)
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@ Digiman: I agree. I have taken tuition in a Cessna 180 (yes, quite old!)
A Cessna 180 doesn't have hydraulic flaps / spoilers. They were cable operated, and a certain degree of control was still available, if you were unfortunate enough to stall the engine. And of course, it's a turbo-prop plane, and quite light.
Yes, a commercial aircraft, like for instance an Airbus A300 has hydraulically-operated air flaps, with 2 seperate circuits. Very unlikely to lose both circuits, but with all engines stalled, as long as the pilots are careful with the stored hydraulic reserves, it is easier to use available air currents to glide, and there's a good chance the engines can be re-started, as long as there's enough forward momentum.
What I meant was, in the case of a helicopter, if the horizontal propellar (that provides lift) stops, there's nothing to keep it in the air! The vertical prop at the rear only provides forward motion, and it will drive the craft out of control! I can't see how the pilot will bring it down. At least, if the rear prop fails, the craft can at least hover, as long as the horizontal prop remains functional.
That home-built craft will require a lot of testing, before it's allowed to take to the skies. Testing an aircraft is very, very expensive, and this brings us back to the crux of this debate - financial support.
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bibiking1
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in fact you're number one stupid - look at your ugly picture
Thanks! |
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almondjoy (f)
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@ Digiman: I agree. I have taken tuition in a Cessna 180 (yes, quite old!)
A Cessna 180 doesn't have hydraulic flaps / spoilers. They were cable operated, and a certain degree of control was still available, if you were unfortunate enough to stall the engine. And of course, it's a turbo-prop plane, and quite light.
Yes, a commercial aircraft, like for instance an Airbus A300 has hydraulically-operated air flaps, with 2 seperate circuits. Very unlikely to lose both circuits, but with all engines stalled, as long as the pilots are careful with the stored hydraulic reserves, it is easier to use available air currents to glide, and there's a good chance the engines can be re-started, as long as there's enough forward momentum.
What I meant was, in the case of a helicopter, if the horizontal propellar (that provides lift) stops, there's nothing to keep it in the air! The vertical prop at the rear only provides forward motion, and it will drive the craft out of control! I can't see how the pilot will bring it down. At least, if the rear prop fails, the craft can at least hover, as long as the horizontal prop remains functional.
That home-built craft will require a lot of testing, before it's allowed to take to the skies. Testing an aircraft is very, very expensive, and this brings us back to the crux of this debate - financial support.
Uwese Brother!--"Thank you brother"--as the binis will say! Right on!-----Where is the financial support for this? No where forth coming. What will Nigerians do next? Use these "maiden or virgin river Niger and Benue" pigeons masquerading as "Hellishcopters" to start carrying people without authorization or safety clearance? What about the waste products from these experiments. We cannot dispose of refuse dumpsters littered all over the cities in Nigeria and we are talking of high tech---engineering projects? Financing is only one problem---we still have to worry about the inability to dispose of "toxic" wastes and by-products in the process of "experimentation"! |
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bolseas
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@ Mckren, babasin, presido1, kobojunkie, omoge, debosky, codrojac, davidylan, and others who support dis guy,
i am very much in support of all wht u guys have bin saying so far. instead of naijans to support this guy, they re casitgating him. let us ask dose peeps who are rebuking him wht dey ve manufactured or produced. what if dey are d ones who produced such a thing, and dey are being castigated, hw re dey going to feeel? i just blive dey are either jealous of d guy or they re envying him.
wht if d guy is from Delta state, dey will say a militant is building a chopper to hijack planes
since he is from kano dey called it a jihad chopper
wht if it is frm oyo or plateu states, wht name will dey give d chopper?
the G8 or G9 started this way b4 dey became wht dey re today.
as a reminder, we even bought an old presidential jet (crap) from them at double the price of a new jet. dey are using their technology to deceive and cheat us.
naijans let stop being narrow minded, let stop dese prejudice, d stereotyping, all dese lead us no where.
let us support one another and make naija a great nation.
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evergie (m)
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@bolseas You mean we should support this poor boy efforts? If we allow that carton he designed to fly then America should apologize to Iraq because we will have something deadlier than weapon of mass destruction. Who told you we all want to die same way as you? Well, I will not stop you from supporting the young chap, who knows reason(s). Take my condolence greets before you pass away. LOL |
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pilot77
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our "Brother's" helicopter will have to have some form of Clutch to disengage the main rotor from the engine should an engine failure occur.He also needs a tail rotor too to conteract the torque generated by the main rotor as they spin.i truly wish him the best of luck  cheers pilot77 |
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bolseas
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@bolseas You mean we should support this poor boy efforts? If we allow that carton he designed to fly then America should apologize to Iraq because we will have something deadlier than weapon of mass destruction. Who told you we all want to die same way as you? Well, I will not stop you from supporting the young chap, who knows reason(s). Take my condolence greets before you pass away. LOL if u re dat poor guy i will still support u. for d guy to spend d little money he is making from phone repairrs on achieving his dreams, went thru d troubles of getting scrap from a crash site, d little money his father gave him as pocket money, all because he wants to achieve his dream, i still doff my hat for d guy. learn to appreciate things no matter hw little dat others did dat u(especially) ddnt do/ve nt done.
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Seun (m)
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Don't worry about safety, the helicopter has never gone higher than seven feet.
You can fall safely from a height of seven feet - just about the height of a tall man.
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naijaborn (m)
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Incase yu guys dont kno;dis no be the first of its kind sometimes around d mid/late 90s i can remember vividly;a guy from yaba tech made an helicopter which was even more gud lookin than dis one wot happened to him like d wind,he's gone wit it! i no fit shout! cos evn me need help |
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bibiking1
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Don't worry about safety, the helicopter has never gone higher than seven feet.
You can fall safely from a height of seven feet - just about the height of a tall man.
then of what use is it? |
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evergie (m)
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then of what use is it?
I wonder oooooo! |
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