And to think, I don't even feel safe riding in a regular plane... Is that a length of rope, in front of the steering, holding something important in place?

Lifting off for the first time in something you've built with your own hands has to be the best feeling in the world.

i would be scared shitless if i ever rode something like that.

cool as hell tho!!

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FAKE! I have that EXACT cockpit skin for Flight Simulator X.

Very fake. This is green screen, and not very good.

Congratulations China on discovering aerodynamics.

Maybe now you can stop stealing our technology?

>> ^Abducted:
Lifting off for the first time in something you've built with your own hands has to be the best feeling in the world.


I would think that landing in (as aposed to dying in) something that you had built with your own hands would be the best feeling.

Interesting that the guy had to hide his face from the Chinese government.

>>WhiteDog
Very fake. This is green screen, and not very good.

You seem like you might be lost.. The YouTube comments section is over here, for further reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqrAA0xDKmE&eurl


..The terrifying rattling lets you know you're alive! He looks pretty good on the throttle and stick! I wonder if he works making kits like the one he built for a living..

Live the dream or die trying - it would be too perfect if the seat was from a tractor...

^
Tilling the friendly skies.

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thing sounds like it's got a lawnmower engine in it

It's all fun and games till the Red Baron show ups!

It's not an airplane - he just put the blades on his lawnmower backwards.

^actually, that WOULD make a fun game! *wink wink*

Can anyone find a pic of the whole aircraft? Would really appreciate it.

Hmm - http://www.ifgogo.com/91/video-of-shanzhai-glider-in-china/

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Neato, if it's real. Needs an exterior shot.

The flight is real. The question is whether the guy in the picture was actually flying at the time, or if the camera was on the back of a model airplane, and he green screened himself in sitting on a pile of junk with a big fan.

I'd like to believe it's real, so I upvoted.

Wow. This mans flying ambition is the only thing bigger then his balls.

As a video editor myself, I would have concluded the video to be legit. the background source is exactly as it should be and would be hard to match had it been on the tail of a real plane, esp the ground sequences. Also anyone who's rode old bikes and snowmobiles will know this guys pain of holding onto a bar that's shaking all over the place for long periods of time, hence the finger tips from time to time.

You're giving me Deja vu Jeff!

Dude...that's the flying lawn mower you see on A.F.V. all the time. Just with a really skinny Chinese guy on it.

All I can think of when I see this is the part of Iron man where he runs out of fuel and crashes down, un-hurt.

Very nice. Hope it's real!

He lands better than the commercial jets I use!

Did anybody see if he was wearing aviator sunglasses? They'd be the only proper eyewear.

Gyrocopter

I wish we had a photo of the whole craft. Pretty neat.

I can't believe people are calling this fake. Perhaps you are all just jaded, but if this is fake, it's an even bigger achievement than a flying lawnmower built by a chinese farmer. The matching of light, the motion, the wind buffets, the throttle and stick, everything is spot on.

Not fake. Amazing, unbelievable. Props!

can we have some more truth and evidence please?

My big clue that this is fake is an audio cue, not video.

There is absolutely no 'wind rush' sound. Are you trying to tell me they have a $1,000+ Audio set-up on their video camera for a sub $100 plane? I don't think so.

Yes I know technically you could make your own wind sock but with the technology of the plane is it likely they know how?

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
My big clue that this is fake is an audio cue, not video.
There is absolutely no 'wind rush' sound. Are you trying to tell me they have a $1,000+ Audio set-up on their video camera for a sub $100 plane? I don't think so.
Yes I know technically you could make your own wind sock but with the technology of the plane is it likely they know how?


Maybe you need better speakers? I can hear the wind pretty clearly on mine, particularly when he's banking.

This is probably the same guy, but the plane looks a bit different. -->http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype=g&assetid=53473916&text=chinese+home+made+airplane

>> ^boisetech:
Gyrocopter

You are correct. I suspected it when I saw how the stick was shaking and then I saw a picture posted above. I still can't see the whole aircraft. This really needs a back story and more pictures.
Edit: The pictures I saw are of a delta wing hang-glider style craft. It is completely different. No reason not to think it is a gyro-copter, though.

This guy should talk to John Denver. He knows all about home made aircraft.


oh right...

What astonishes me is the near total lack of vibration or shake in the camera, especially when he touches down.

LOL at any discussion of this being fake...

I'm sorry, but I think it's fake as well.

Oh, good grief.

Fake.

the gyrocopter would answer one of my main questions..why the landing was able to be so short.


camera shake... its hard to find a new camera today that does not have image stabilization atleast digitaly.

>> ^jmd:
Wow. This mans flying ambition is the only thing bigger then his balls.
As a video editor myself, I would have concluded the video to be legit. the background source is exactly as it should be and would be hard to match had it been on the tail of a real plane, esp the ground sequences. Also anyone who's rode old bikes and snowmobiles will know this guys pain of holding onto a bar that's shaking all over the place for long periods of time, hence the finger tips from time to time.



I was just going to mention the shaking stick thing. It is obviously real, because who would go to the trouble to FAKE causing themselves a lot of pain while flying a contraption. This is totally real... flying really isn't that hard, a big enough sheet of plastic and a good puff of wind will get you to flying.. but the landing is the scary part. I found myself holding my breath once he started landing, and when he finally hit the ground he stopped on a dime! Well done ambitious Chinese man!

There is very little camera shake when it's mounted to something like the frame of the craft. Imagine a movie shot where the camera is mounted to a car. Everything seems to move except for the car. Most camera shaking comes from handheld shots. Anyway, if the entire plane shook like the stick, the craft wouldn't hold together very long.

It could easily be done for real, and it could easily be faked. But I see no evidence that it's fake.

I bet if the title said "American Farmer", QM wouldn't be calling it fake.

Seriously? No seat belt? What does this guy expect to be strapped to when he crashes?

PUHLEASE yer killin me...this is real and this kind of crap is being flown all over...

>> ^brycewi19:
Seriously? No seat belt? What does this guy expect to be strapped to when he crashes?


There's a seatbelt.

Maybe it's his escape plan.

>> ^lucky760:
I wish we had a photo of the whole craft. Pretty neat.


Here is the whole craft, which Gizmodo calls a helicopter, not a plane: http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir/queued

fake my ass, look at the propellers. this guy is way smarter then you and anyone you know !