Building Ghana's First Homemade Helicopter

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Ashesi Design Lab mobile summer project is back, and with it comes some interesting projects being run by our very own students here, in Ashesi University. The Ashesi Design Lab, in its mission to encourage individuals to design, think and innovate, host the mobile summer project for students who wish to work on projects they couldn’t work on during normal school period, due to time constraints. One of such students is Nii Amartei Amarteifio ’21, who turned his love for aeronautics and technology, into a single seater ultralight helicopter, which he built over the summer break. Take-off, as he calls it came out of his love for building things and technology, leading to the birth of Ghana’s first homemade helicopter.



The project involved extensive research into aeronautics and mechanical engineering, areas Nii has a lot of interest in. the research yielded results which led him to draw up sketches and build 3D models the aircraft, all of which requiring his extensive knowledge of Mathematics. He is currently building the aircraft, which he hopes to test in the month of August. His project and achievements earned him an interview on Kwese TV where he spoke about his passion and how he turned it into this physical working model.

We wish Nii all the best and hope that he, like his project, continues to soar higher.


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