The most brutal comment section I've ever seen!
I don't understand how he obviously has access to decent resources and yet gets it so fundamentally wrong.
Build a small model first, not these full scale things, wood and lightweight aluminum, and fabric, not bloody steel and iron or whatever that is.--
That's a theme throughout these videos. They all get it fundamentally wrong, with tiny wingspans, hopelessly small engine and propellers, and heavy, complex construction. Yet the optimism and lack of discouragement? We all ought to respect that. I for one am going on record here: I really want them to succeed.
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There's a difference between building planes and emulating them.
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Very common theme watching these african homebuild airplanes. They all try to emulate airplanes thinking the closer it looks to the real thing the more likely it is to fly. They have the spirit now someone only needs to show them proper techniques
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the only thing stopping him is gravity
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Dude if you have the internet use it, stop trying to reinvent the wheel. There is so much knowledge on building planes from scratch. You don't have to build a copy but use the same already discovered principles, theory, math and physics to get your very own aircraft build successfully off the ground. Wise up bud.
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I look at all the African aircraft videos and it amazes me to see steel on the aircraft and how heavy they look. Can't they figure out power to weight ratio>
the plane doesn't even have proper airfoils for wings... I doubt that thing even get's any lift with those square wings.
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Power to weight ratio? You're kidding right? Their control tower is built out of bamboo and straw and they're supposed to understand physics?
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Physics is racist.
