i have a new item on the bucket list

[LS21]

build a kit helicopter and get certified to fly it

easily achievable - helluva lot more affordable than a private cessna - kits are 10-50k, like buying a second fun car

i should look into the lessons and license thing <2 yr, and own a heli craft in 5 years

blog.anandtech.com

no pics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOhdYB0Hdas

 

[Scouzer]

a kit helicopter...

kit airplanes make me cringe flying around in my airspace, a kit helicopter is just retarded.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
a kit helicopter...

kit airplanes make me cringe flying around in my airspace, a kit helicopter is just retarded.

Heh, with me, a kit helicopter would by necessity have to be at the end of my bucket list.

 

[QueBert]

that's scary, I wouldn't trust my assembly skills enough to put together a helicopter.

 

[OverVolt]

5 Gallons of fuel? So those takes were what, 25tanks of gas?

 

[Newbian]

Ugh, first the black avatar is giving away free Ipods and now they are trying to advertise cheap helicopters.

Where will it end?

 

[huberm]

i dont think you have to get certified to fly a kit helicopter. However, i guess you would want some kind of training before you went flying around in a bladed death capsule.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: huberm
i dont think you have to get certified to fly a kit helicopter. However, i guess you would want some kind of training before you went flying around in a bladed, expensive, filled with fuel death capsule.

Fixed

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: huberm
i dont think you have to get certified to fly a kit helicopter. However, i guess you would want some kind of training before you went flying around in a bladed, expensive, filled with fuel death capsule.

Fixed

5 gal wont make that much of an explosion

 

[theflyingpig]

Make sure that's the last thing on your bucket list because you are going to fuck it up somehow and die.

 

[Epic Fail]

Could also be your last item on your bucket list.

 

[tk149]

LOL at the responses! :laugh:

Cool, yes. With my skills? Successful, NO! The only saving grace would be that the helicopter probably wouldn't even start, much less leave the ground.

 

[Oyeve]

I built a helecopter kit about 25 years ago. Spent all spring and half the summer making it. Spent 1000s on the remote alone. First test flight was in a parking lot in lower manhattan. Thats when I found out it was illegal in NYC. Cops came and took it. I mean, I could get in the thing and fly it but it was huge and could decapitate someone I guess.

 

[PottedMeat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGvut-vpi0M

"What's the matter with that guy?"
"He was told not to fly the thing"
"He hasn't been checked out in it at all"
"HOG! You all right?"

Lulz.