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Freelance heli designs

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Yacob Nigatu designed ultralight helicopter nandikeshkalyani design ultralight helicopter Adrian Gallardo, Industrial Designer, Illutration & Conceptual Artist La Plata, Argentina

Location of Ehang factory and HQ

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EHang's Yunfu factory location, Guangdong China.      The Yunfu facility has a total planned gross floor area of 24,000 square meters. Ehang's headquarter and landing area

What business you need to run to own a helicopter? Here's 3 examples

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 Grace Borsari and helicopter helicopter. She's an entrepreneur in uninterruptible power systems field There’s A Guy In Cincy With A Helicopter & IndyCar In His Garage A local man who wishes to remain anonymous has a helicopter, an IndyCar, and a Corvette in his garage.  He also has both a Carrera-made slot car track and an iRacing terminal in his basement.  Though the location of his home will not be revealed here, we sent a photographer to capture a glimpse of it all. / Image: Allison McAdams // Published: 12.19.17 Millionaire gypsy Alfie Best with his private helicopter on Undercover Big Boss   Alfie Best has ordered an Aston Martin H130 Helicopter Alfie Best made his money through Wyldecrest Parks

Fulsawangi village man from India dies from testing DIY chopper

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Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim, a 24-year-old school dropout from Maharashtra's Fulsawangi village in Mahagaon tehsil of the district, had built the prototype of a single-seater helicopter by welding steel pipes. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajion May Allah grant him jannat firdaous al a3la

African, Indonesian and Chinese DIY heli projects

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 Helicopter gearbox housing made from aluminium 6061 2 halfs of 310*360mm with 35 and 75mm thickness.   Indonesian DIY helicopter   Chinese ulm helicopter company

Chinese Cheaper Choppers and Baghdad's apartment with helipad

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Mosquito helicopter Hangzhou "Low Altitude Freedom" is a DIY kit that airplane enthusiasts like, and it is also commonly called "mosquito plane" or "mosquito helicopter". By the  Development Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Star low-altitude helicopter  manufacturing.  It can be mainly used for agriculture, forestry and plant protection, rescue and disaster relief, fire rescue, 杭州萧山坎山工业园区 UAV modification, aerial photography, geographic mapping, patrol, line patrol, etc. power system:   The power of the mosquito helicopter comes from MZ202, 60-hp, a two-stroke, two-cylinder power engine. This engine uses Reed's air intake system with a flat torque/speed curve. The power output is very stable in the engine operating range. The MZ202 works speed of about 6000RPM other than the engine rotation speed of 6500 ~ 7000RPM sibling is  low  , and therefore the burden MZ202 relatively light, but also improves the reliability of this engine.  The total weight of this engin...

Helicopter innovations from Ukraine and China, home with helipad of UK

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Ukrainian DIY amateur built helicopter Dongguan Freerchobby Co   passenger drone Volt helicopter    Home with helipad in Brierley Ln, Preston, UK

Rise of ultralight DIY helicopters and home with helipad for them

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 House with helipad in Olivia Rae Farms Louisiana USA If people used ultralight homebuilt helicopters for commuting then there would be more homes with helipads Homebuilt helicopters are becoming more common as shown below

Copy of Mosquito helicopter from Greece

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Since there was no Cash to buy a kit, i used a mini lathe and also a milling machine to built most of the parts. Of course i had to make some changes of the original design due to the limitation of my equipment. The motor is a Rotax 503 and a custom built primary reduction drive 1/2 with certifugal clutch similar to the Mosquito. In conclusion...there's is a lot of job to be done but it's a soooo unique and interesting project. Making the main rotor blade with aluminum 7075  about 4000$-6000$ with used blades and used motor. Rotor Head it's not actually a mini lathe but compare to other industrial lathes, it is small chinese lathe with a distance between the chuck and the live center 20" and a chuck diam approx 6". With this lathe I did most of the parts, but to be honest you need a more stable heavy lathe with at least 40" travel so you can actually make anything. Aso the "center mast" of the mosquito is 4130 steel tube, it is a very difficult ...