Man in Kenya Builds Airplane from Scrap

800Kg dry weight (which is at least 2.5x heavier then it should be) + fuel + Pilot + low horsepower + low torque = a very very slow taxi, a teeny tiny jump up (assuming there's a bump in the runway), and a big long drawn out crash.

Probably won't go fast enough or high enough to kill him. Probably.

Hopefully he'll have a flight cam running.

You may want to change the title to "Man in Kenya". "Guy" could be considered derogatory - an African friend told me long ago.

Done. Thanks for the tip, ted.

RIP mr. Nderitu :(

While I admire mr. Nderitu's creativity, this device looks worse than those early inventors prior to the Wright Brothers. Any modern engineer will tell you that his contraption has no hope of actually flying.

I think this "thing" that looks like an early airplane as all the chances of flying. I've flown worst than this and jumped out of Cessnas mended with Duck Tape. People who have no clue about aeronautics always underestimate the chances of something to actually fly,

...People who have no clue about aeronautics.....
understand correct grammar. I'm no aeronautical engineer but know enough to say that this contraption is about as safe as juggling chainsaws. ever hear of PIO? I would bet a week's salary that if it got into the air it would oscillate it's way back onto the deck in 300 short yards.

Well I have a clue or two about aeronautics and I'd be very surprised if it did fly for more than say, 5 seconds. I doubt his extensive 6-month internet research has taught him much about stability, or for that matter aerodynamics... he seems to have made a roughly wing-shaped wing but it looks like he didn't bother that much about the tail. Planks with hinges won't do the trick I'm afraid.

Anyway, good luck to him! I just hope he doesn't test it by hurtling it off a cliff.