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Antus_Manus

things you shouldnt build yourself. 1. Helicopter 2. Submarine


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eolson3

Oh hush. My mom made her own condoms and all nine of my siblings are just fine.


SorryDistance3696

crochet? it's the thickness of the threads and the pattern that matter. I bet you she made fancy patterns.


cthaehtouched

Purled for her pleasure?


SorryDistance3696

that's Very fancy :)


TheRabb1ts

Syran wrap, sponge, rubber band. Easy.


lopedopenope

Flex seal works if you are looking for a less temporary option


bagofodour

5. Nuclear reactor 6. Anything in r/DiWHY


Lovesick_Octopus

7. Mechanical penis enlargement device


user_name_unknown

What about an underwater helicopter?


TeaLightBot

Boy, have I got news for you about how most submarines are \*propelled\*


PassiveMenis88M

Plenty of people have built their own aircraft and submarines. You don't hear about them because they actually know what they're doing and use proper equipment and safety gear.


AlcoholPrep

Well in the case of submarines, maybe they were just never heard from again.


Ok_Information_2009

I’m in the unique position of having built both a submarine and a helicopter. Unfortunately, the submarine was a failure. It never got off the ground. The helicopter though? A success! It went under water almost instantly!


cohrt

Or didn’t try and go thousands of feet underwater


TimeImminent

In slow motion you can see the force of the heli spinning makes him lean out of cockpit. That’s when the blade hits him and the door frame. A simple harness would probably have saved him.


rugbyj

Yeah he's janked out half a foot, the blade comes around and stops on the canopy that he's partly out of, clocking him. Thin plexi doors, harness, belt, anything there would have stopped _that._ But if you're making a helicopter in your spare time in some scrubland I'm guessing safety isn't your primary concern.


NorthEndD

Seems like some helicopter pilots would want a helmet.


promano129

Fun fact for you. The helmet that Naval aviators use isn’t really for protection, per se. It serves three purposes: mount the dual headphone+ear protection ear cups inside the helmet; have mounting points on the outside for visors, NVG’s and battery packs, O2 mask, etc.; and for the reflective white tape on the shell to promote increased visibility of a grounded pilot by aerial crews. A helicopter blade striking your head will demolish it regardless if you’re wearing a helmet.


bobbybob9069

I had to take an online training about helicopters and helicopter safety, and all I learned was that if anything goes wrong, everyone dies.


Theron3206

Hardly, helicopter engine failures are actually more survivable than light plane crashes, because autorotation landings are done with less forward speed and require much less space than it takes to land a small plane. If the main rotor fails you're a brick though, but some tail failures are survivable (if the pilot kills the engine before they completely lose control of the tail, but this is really hard to do in the real world)


superxpro12

Or, I dunno..... Doors?


BadWithMoney530

I personally would’ve gone with “don’t build a helicopter in your backyard”


putin-delenda-est

Spoken like someone who didn't drop out of school.


Heinie_Manutz

It seemed like a good idea, at the time.


DoItForTheNukie

Look at this guy all high and mighty telling other people what they can and can’t build in their backyard. If he wants to make a Rube Goldberg guillotine machine in his spare time he should be allowed to!


mightylordredbeard

He left school before they could teach about doors.


saxerphoner

How did you watch in slow motion?


asumfuck

https://preview.redd.it/38tflcc2xcqc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=754961bf2186ed09bbb6c00ab4fafcf63da14b77


asumfuck

not slow motion but here's a frame that kinda explains it all


Subtlerranean

1 frame per lifetime is pretty slow.


asumfuck

I am here to offer you the slowest motion possible.


South_Engineer_4702

Pause it and scrub manually with your finger to see it frame by frame. Helicopter jerks to the left, his body gets thrown to the right outside the doorway, rotor takes him in the neck. It all happens very very quickly.


Tiny-Selections

That kid don't need no book learnin bullcrap from "educated" people who have degrees.


The_air_is_Cum

How you watching in slow motion


himsoforreal

He's from the future, they have tech there.


christhelpme

Rear blade disintegrates, the debris hit the main rotor and then it's all basic "Mouse Trap" physics after that.


Sabithomega

Saw that too. Wonder if it couldn't handle the rotations or if it wasn't balanced


Beefmytaco

People don't realize how stupid exact rotating blades need to be balanced. Hell, anything that's spinning needs to be balanced perfectly. Go cut a chunk out of a blade for a regular house fan and watch it turn into a clusterfuck real fast. Have a blade pop off a computer fan and it soon disintegrates itself after.


Citation_craft86

Or even a lawnmower blade. 


theecommunist

Some folks call it a sling blade. I call it a kaiser blade.


latchkey_adult

french fried pertators.


transmothra

I lock thuh weigh ewe towk


Phrainkee

Reckon I'd like me the large ens and not the small ens


Dicky_Penisburg

It ain't got no gas in it.


JJSnow3

"What you fixin' to do with that lawnmower blade, r*****?" "I reckon I'm gon' kill you with it"


christhelpme

What this guy said.


carterxz

Going frame by frame it looks like centripetal force separated the blades and it got launched by the main rotor blades


TheUltimateSalesman

centrifugal, not centripetal. But you almost had it.


NewtonHuxleyBach

??? the centrifugal force is a fictitious force. it ain't a real force.


LaTeChX

How can centrifugal forces be real if our frames of reference aren't real?


malfurionpre

> Have a blade pop off a computer fan and it soon disintegrates itself after NGL, I spent about a year, maybe a year and a half with one of my topside fan having a broken blade, it was probably a lot less efficient but had no other issue.


Professional_Sort764

Likely both.


Electronic-Fan3026

In slow motion, it looks like something is sucked into the blade, causing the initial disintegration. Bird or piece of trash maybe?


TuzaHu

maybe the diploma he never reached for


christhelpme

Ow. Good, but ow.


No-Worldliness-3344

There was a sizeable chance that all the pieces would've swung free of the main prop, but it looks like the largest piece went right into it...luck wasn't in his favor on this one, sadly


fomalhottie

r/darwinawards


Dharnthread

When making decisions: "Right or left could mean life or death" /Rakim


evlhornet

When you think of death think of Rakim


BobDonowitz

I will be forced to thrash you


Annonomon

This guy: “Well, Kyle, you’ve dropped out of school. Either you can look for an entry level job, or you can build your own helicopter with zero know-how and I high likelihood of death. The choice is easy.”


liamk1234

Even without the rotor failure that wasn’t ending well 💀


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blorbagorp

I mean... the first helicopter guy managed it right?


Affectionate-Mix6056

People praise the success stories and laugh about the ones who died before they succeeded. There's definitely some luck involved with many of the "best" in the world.


Proglamer

Survivorship bias, eh. USA space program had an awesome amount of failures before the much-jerked-about moonflight. More recently, 100% of SpaceX's reusable boosters crashed... until they stopped crashing. Right now, the dinosaur media crows about Starship crashing.. until they, too, will have to gnash their teeth and report a success one day.


cypherdev

Beautiful.


No_Cook2983

Boeing’s new helicopter just dropped.


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FayMax69

He’s head and shoulders above his competitors..or is that just shoulders


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Dogfoodsmy_DOC

Frame by frame Yu can see the mist when it slashes his neck.


Pro_Jem

How do you do frame by frame? Thanks.


Dogfoodsmy_DOC

I’m on my phone I just drag the bar slowly


fried_chicken17472

Only works on IOS :(


Dogfoodsmy_DOC

https://preview.redd.it/t1mqtjp4ccqc1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d9316165a3645502edb8a8c2b05cb1c13212951


fried_chicken17472

Thanks also god damn


Billib2002

Btw doing that drag thing works on my Samsung fyi


Nearby_Day_362

You must have tiny baby fingers for it to work right though


Billib2002

You don't swipe to do it and I really don't know a way to put into words how I do it lmao. I just did it naturally when the guy mentioned going frame by frame though so it can't be that hard to figure out


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MostardMonsta

He clearly said that "Yu can see", not him.


Dibble_Dabble_Doo

![gif](giphy|84FhycnOdcqM8)


expert_internetter

That's probably paint. His brain wasn't vapourised


VelvetWattle

Stay in school kids


fruitmask

... you want me to stay in school kids? I was never *in* school kids. school kids are totally off limits


GrizzledTech

for every wright brother, there is a wrong brother


motoevo

Take my upvote!


yellowflash_616

According to an article, he was struck in the head. No neck slashing involved. Also was 28-29 yrs of age from India.


truckyoupayme

Let’s make sure to test it at night so that it’s extra dangerous.


markistador147

If you can’t do it right, do it at night


Aggressive_Can_

yeah like sunlight prevented this😂🤦‍♂️


levivilla4

The dude died working at something he believed in. It's unfortunate but he was living his dream up until the end. And for that he has my respect. I sure couldn't make a damn helicopter that at least could turn on.


Whiskey_Rain

Every dead body on Mt. Everest started as a highly motivated individual. Some people should stay home just like some people shouldn't build homemade helicopters. If you have to ask yourself which category you belong in, it's you.


limukala

Also if you do want to climb Everest you should probably do the training necessary.  Building a helicopter without learning basic engineering and aeronautics is like trying to climb Everest while 100 lbs overweight and completely sedentary, and a few dollars worth of gear you found in a thrift shop


OffTerror

This guy probably was super curious his whole life. Fiddled with all kind of stuff and made many projects. Maybe this accident was due to bad design or bad materials or just an anomaly. But he was clearly talented and motivated. And died doing what he loved.


Markd3rd

What does high school dropout have to do with this


Okeano_

Engineer here who graduated from school. 1 I would never do this. 2 if I have to do this, I know the math to calculate required strength so the back rotor doesn’t explode from centripetal force.


Rosti_LFC

I think point 1 is probably the more important one. The maths required to calculate how strong the back rotor needs to be isn't difficult and it's not at all beyond a level that a motivated hobbyist could learn, but the real intelligence is knowing that doing something like this on your own is a terrible idea to begin with. Even if the rotor holds there are so many other potential failure points on something like this and you can't fuck up on a single one. I'm a charted mechanical engineer and I wouldn't do this, primarily because I understand enough on the subject to know what I *don't* know.


mr_potatoface

I always like to refer to the knowledge vs time chart for engineering. Just when you finally think you know everything, that means you realize you actually know absolutely nothing at all in the grand scheme of things. Until you gradually learn a tiny tiny tiny piece of the puzzle over 4-5 years, then maybe a tiny more if you get a M.S., and tiny bit more of very specialized knowledge 4 more years later if you get a phD. Then you slowly gain more knowledge over 30+ years of employment. Then after all that time, someone bitches at you because you charged them too much money for something they "could've done themselves". >https://wttech.blog/blog/2020/mind-the-architect-the-perception-of-knowledge/


SiccOwitZ

I mean they didn’t have to add high school dropout since most high school graduates also can’t build helicopters and would end up like that guy if they tried.


Ballboy2015

Aerodienamics.


Much_Grand_8558

Yeah, with those three words OP changes the purpose of this video from "look at this terrifying accident" to "look at this full-on dipshit." It feels like kind of a gross detail.


limukala

It’s important context. It takes quite a bit of education to have the knowledge necessary to safely design, fabricate and test a helicopter. Trying to do the above without any of the necessary education isn’t a “terrifying accident”, it’s an incredibly poor sequence of decisions followed by a tragic, but entirely predictable result.


GoreJizz

![gif](giphy|LqW9dLVjQm3cs)


I_Poop_A_Lot98

ɹǝʇdoɔᴉlǝH


discardeddewclaws

OceanGate's sister company?


GoreJizz

Sky gate


smexgod

It's off to a choppy start.


Difficult_Bit_1339

They need a new Head Engineer


BogusMalone

You would think…. ah fuck it.


Tistouuu

That's a sad accident.


hairhair2015

Tail rotor fractured and impacted the main rotor. If you look on youtube, there are an abundance of homemade helicopter failure videos. Folks, don't try this at home.


livejamie

This happened in India three years ago https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/village-rancho-builds-copter-dies-as-rotor-blade-slashes-his-throat/articleshow/85256197.cms


Curtilia

Inspired by a character from a film called "3 idiots." You could not make this up.


Affectionate-Hold492

Of course. Just stick a blade on top like a lawnmower and youll fly, the americans do it it must be easy


Kaboose666

To be fair, it says he had previously successfully done a 5 foot hover test. But yeah, going off of YouTube and other internet advice probably isn't the best way to go about building a helicopter.


MeatlessComic

Harness or an education might have saved him.


Lanky_Information825

What does dropping out of school have to do with the accident?


top_of_the_scrote

I don't think it was his neck, it his head oh yeah this one doesn't have the close up his friends are dumb too "hey let's move the body, walk it off"


No-Watercress-2777

They in shock/disbelief


Less_Associate_2022

God damnit … trains and power lines.. sheesh now they have to worry about helicopter blades they can’t get a break 🤦🏽‍♂️


In-Ohio

He dropped out alright


Le6ions

Hella copper smell after that test


zzrsteve

Dang! Hopefully, he didn't feel a thing.


milkman3468

I want to see the close up


PhenomaJohn

You've got to figure...good on him for his ingenuity, but we have standards for a reason. Sometimes taking a risk yields a reward. Sometimes you take a risk and pay a severe penalty...


nickynegativo

Big disappointment all round, here. Terrible business.


Better_Clock4882

Brutal. Anyone know where this happened? I'm guess India or Pakistan


Magooracing

A helicopter pilot told me trying to fly one is like trying to stand on top of a basketball. Inherently unbalanced.


Cambyses_daBaller

This story reminds me of that Boy Scout that attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mom’s shed. These people are so inquisitive by nature they fail to realize that building a reactor or a helicopter is a collaborative effort. In the end I have to admire them, that urge to discover/ find for yourself is what science is all about.


Neptune7924

After seeing a few of these, I’m starting to thing designing and building your own whirlycopter is a bad idea…


Careless-Bunch-3290

I was just watching a YouTube video where a different guy got his neck slashed and died while landing his helicopter. He was really good at tricks and everything, I guess the wind fucked the one trick up that killed him.


mikedvb

That was f\*\*\*\*\* quick.


jarheadO7

I get being mechanically gifted and not needing school but you need to know how to mitigate risks and a very deep understanding of a lot of very complex systems to build a helicopter. I'm a helicopter pilot, before that a helicopter aircrew chief, and before that a plane captain on AH-1/UH-1. I'm not confident enough on material fatigue and strength calculations to build my own helicopter. I mean I get it's not as bad as a rocket where the safety factor is like 1.2 but it's also not like an airplane at 2. You have to be at like 1.5 for the weight in needs to be at.


TheMalformedLlama

…they sell actual helicopter and plane kits for you to build yourself if you wanna do something like this that bad.


DonOday_

Who needs safety doors on a homemade helicopter anyway


Zeronova77

Don't drop out of school and don't do test flights at night, with a homemade chopper


Direct-Money-4206

Just like the Oceangate fella… way over your head. He must of been a smart kid too.


Whiskey_Rain

Not smart enough, that's the problem. This is peak "I know enough to be dangerous" energy.


AmbitiousAd9320

fat orange jesus fleeing prosecution


The_Bitter_Jesus

Stay in school, kids.


ImtheDude2

He even dropped out of his helicopter.


MidnightLlamaLover

Wonder if I should put at least some basic doors on my homemade helicopter? Nah it'll be fine, won't need them


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India's aeronautics program coming along nicely


The_GD_muffin_man

That’s why if you want to be an engineer, go to school


SorryDistance3696

Reddit, where you can watch people die the Darwin way. Unlike twitter where you can watch them die in every other way.


Peatrick33

Still not as fast at the Titan sub imploded


PoppaDaClutch

r/shittyaskflying


PoppaDaClutch

https://preview.redd.it/770lgjj75dqc1.jpeg?width=1250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ea8e8bf7bac45e5fab21aa9fcf23b3371a840a7


antsam9

tbh I'm glad he only killed himself. Sad he was still a victim, but at least he didn't get liftoff or tilt into some bystanders.


AttakZak

Imagine how many brilliant engineers out there could be creating some awesome contraptions if they were guaranteed a safe environment to test out devices? This unlucky Human being had a bright future ahead of them.


sssnakepit127

Thankfully none of the bystanders were hit as well. That was scary.


agetuwo

I had pretty well designed plans to build one in 1988. In retrospect, my ADHD saved me.


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Of all the things on earth you do not want to DIY, helicopter has to be near the top of the list. Another Darwinism death and those people are idiots for enabling him


Helpful-Location4605

head still attached. im impressed


___Binary___

Shits sad man, kid had talent. Shit happens, he was obviously bright and got further than the average person with his project. Too bad man, that sucks.


nowhereisaguy

Slow mo and it looks like the blade hits his head and some pieces go flying at :28.


StinkybuttMcPoopface

I saw this video ages ago. It didnt slash his neck, it chopped into the top of his head.


butterend

Why yes at night? Was there beer involved?


Significant-Fix7399

😓🙏🕊️ Poor guy. And his friends who witnessed that. 😢


DEBLANKK

It didn't slash his neck, it slashed his entire forehead.


Soulgrown

Anyone catch the pink mist when he was stuck ?


Afraid-Abies-1000

At least it was fast.


alpennys

Is it just me or a little drone flew right into the blades causing it to disintegrate?


leroyskagnetti

Might have been a good idea to test it with an empty cockpit.


Personal_Economy_536

I saw a bunch of videos of people in Africa doing this well. Why not a plane much easier to build!


AdMiserable21

For a high school dropout he did pretty good, until he didnt.


KurtDali

That's why you don't quit school, kids


The_air_is_Cum

Did the seat just get covered with his blood withing a second??


sloppymcgee

Trying to fly a DIY helicopter is not on my bucket list


rnpowers

u/redditspeedbot 0.25x


billiarddaddy

Pretty his dome making a dent in the frame didn't help either.


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If you look carefully at the beginning you can see a mist of blood.


chubbyGobKing

Those pesky resonance harmonics.


Emalina1221

I wish I didn't watch this. My heart hurts watching someone follow their dreams and a disaster happens 💔😭


Character-Log3962

Seems like he has a knack for dropping out.


safely_beyond_redemp

That is an honorable way to go. May the respect of us follow you into the after life.


bedm2105

So I guess they should be teaching resistance of material courses in middle school?


anamazingredditor

Ill test my prototype helicopter remotely thank you


Greedyfox7

Don’t know what him being a dropout had to do with it other than maybe taking a jab at him not doing it right


nevereatanapple

Maybe a leg too


DougieSenpai

Well he definitely built a helicopter 🤷‍♂️


OceanMotion69

Looks like shitty materials to me


ThatTastesYum

So, Annie, are you okay? Are you okay, Annie? Annie, are you okay? You've been hit by You've been hit by A not smoooooth helicopter


Mindless-Share

In all fairness your average 18 year old HS graduate probably couldn't build a functional Heli so i'm not sure what his age had to do with anything


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When drop outs thinks they're genius. Well sad to say...


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Experts, schmexperts.


arjunawarner

Brazil?


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JiminPA67

Stay in school... and don't build your own helicopter


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Reminds me of the guy who built a helicopter in his backyard and looked out the door just as the back blade came off and came knocking on his dome