Credit to @-GOOSE for the added context!! tysm <3
On Tuesday (August 10) night, a 24-year-old innovator and school dropout named Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim succumbed to his injuries during a fatal accident on his DIY helicopter. The incident took place in the Fulsawangi village in Mahagaon tehsil in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.
As per reports, Ibrahim had dropped out of school when he was studying in class 8. He then began working with his elder brother Mussavir at his gas welding workshop. He learnt the art of making coolers, almirahs and other household items using steel and aluminium sheets. He was inspired by the character of ‘Rancho’ in the movie ‘3 idiots’ and wanted to make his village Fulsawangi famous. Using the skills that he honed while working at the workshop, Ibrahim designed a helicopter from scratch.
He had built the helicopter using information from Youtube videos. In a mammoth effort that lasted two years, Ibrahim was able to collect all the parts that are required to build the helicopter. According to his friend Sachin Ubale, the deceased innovator created the prototype of a single-seater helicopter. Ibrahim had used steel pipes and a Maruti 800 engine to build the helicopter. Ubale added that Ismail wanted to showcase the DIY helicopter to the public on the occasion of Independence Day.
On Tuesday night, Ismail decided to do a final trial run of the helicopter. As his friends gathered to witness the occasion, he started the engine, and shortly after the accident happen. As seen in the video shot by his friends, while rotating at very high speed, the blades of the tail rotor of the helicopter snapped, and pieces of it hit the main rotor blads. This caused the main rotor blades also to snap, and a piece of metal hit Ismail at a very high speed.
Ismail did not wear protective gear while testing his chopper
“Ismail wanted to exhibit the helicopter to the public on Independence Day this year and so he decided to test the flying machine near his workshop. On Tuesday night, he occupied the pilot seat and started the engine as some of his friends watched in awe. Even before anyone could understand what was happening, a piece of the broken blade slashed Ismail’s throat and he collapsed to the ground. He used to test the functioning of the chopper very often. Earlier, he had been successful in lifting the helicopter 5 feet above the ground. It was his final trial on Tuesday,” Ubale said.
https://twitter.com/dharmendrajore/status/1425719324300304388?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
The deceased’s friend informed that Ismail would wear a helmet and headphones while testing the helicopter. However, on the fateful night, he did not wear any protective gear. His friends were thrilled to see Ismail testing out his DIY chopper. Their happiness was short-lived as the helicopter malfunctioned within minutes. After the pieces of the blades slit the throat of Ismail, he fell down from the helicopter. He began bleeding profusely and was rushed to a hospital at Pusad. However, he succumbed to his injuries even before the doctors could begin the treatment. A video of the incident had gone viral on social media.
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Gotta give this guy props. Even though it failed fatally.
Dude (almost) built a fucking helicopter. More difficult than a plane in my opinion.
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oh def gotta give him props. Seriously such a cool project but it took his life unfortunately. sadly this is why we shouldn't do this kinda stuff at home
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Post this to the description please. This old video needs the story.
On Tuesday (August 10) night, a 24-year-old innovator and school dropout named Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim succumbed to his injuries during a fatal accident on his DIY helicopter. The incident took place in the Fulsawangi village in Mahagaon tehsil in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.
As per reports, Ibrahim had dropped out of school when he was studying in class 8. He then began working with his elder brother Mussavir at his gas welding workshop. He learnt the art of making coolers, almirahs and other household items using steel and aluminium sheets. He was inspired by the character of ‘Rancho’ in the movie ‘3 idiots’ and wanted to make his village Fulsawangi famous. Using the skills that he honed while working at the workshop, Ibrahim designed a helicopter from scratch.
He had built the helicopter using information from Youtube videos. In a mammoth effort that lasted two years, Ibrahim was able to collect all the parts that are required to build the helicopter. According to his friend Sachin Ubale, the deceased innovator created the prototype of a single-seater helicopter. Ibrahim had used steel pipes and a Maruti 800 engine to build the helicopter. Ubale added that Ismail wanted to showcase the DIY helicopter to the public on the occasion of Independence Day.
On Tuesday night, Ismail decided to do a final trial run of the helicopter. As his friends gathered to witness the occasion, he started the engine, and shortly after the accident happen. As seen in the video shot by his friends, while rotating at very high speed, the blades of the tail rotor of the helicopter snapped, and pieces of it hit the main rotor blads. This caused the main rotor blades also to snap, and a piece of metal hit Ismail at a very high speed.
Ismail did not wear protective gear while testing his chopper
“Ismail wanted to exhibit the helicopter to the public on Independence Day this year and so he decided to test the flying machine near his workshop. On Tuesday night, he occupied the pilot seat and started the engine as some of his friends watched in awe. Even before anyone could understand what was happening, a piece of the broken blade slashed Ismail’s throat and he collapsed to the ground. He used to test the functioning of the chopper very often. Earlier, he had been successful in lifting the helicopter 5 feet above the ground. It was his final trial on Tuesday,” Ubale said.
https://twitter.com/dharmendrajore/status/1425719324300304388?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
The deceased’s friend informed that Ismail would wear a helmet and headphones while testing the helicopter. However, on the fateful night, he did not wear any protective gear. His friends were thrilled to see Ismail testing out his DIY chopper. Their happiness was short-lived as the helicopter malfunctioned within minutes. After the pieces of the blades slit the throat of Ismail, he fell down from the helicopter. He began bleeding profusely and was rushed to a hospital at Pusad. However, he succumbed to his injuries even before the doctors could begin the treatment. A video of the incident had gone viral on social media.
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oh wow tysm! i'll add it rn!
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Yeah he definitely got props 😏
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He should hv at least had a way to remotely test it
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lmao "Prop" is short for propeller so he sure got some props delivered.
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I wish I did that intentionally.
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seems like 10× more dangerous as well..
even if he did get it into the air, that things looks shifty aF
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On a test run he hovered around 5 feet. Pretty cool for a homemade project made in the middle of nowhere.
I think he actually made a working helicopter that would work in low altitude with minimal wind.
But the rotors/blades were probably used, and it does seem like his tail rotor did not have a “perfectly stable” setup. Just a tad of a wobble to it.
If that was secured right, or didn’t fail, this dude would have been famous outside of the gore world.
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for sure.. it would have been some shit to see that work
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Props? More like 'Blades'. Give this guy blades...rotor blades that is.
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you're hilarious.
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Oh, he got his "props." One smashed into the side of his head.
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STRIKE THREE! YOUUUU'RE OUT!!!
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It actually sliced his throat. He fell out of the chopper while bleeding out. Pretty brutal. Was not an instant death.
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I mean sure, it is cool he did try to build one. But it looked sooo funny when it blew up.
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The helicopter gave him a prop.
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STRIKE FOUR! KYS!
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Almost certainly, there is a reason bird dont have rotors! It weren't meant to fly !
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insects though...
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We haven't mastered material science well enough to keep Frank Herbert's dream in one piece for a whole flight unfortunately......far too much strain on an ornithopter's fuselage with 4 props violently oscillating in opposote directions.
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Putting 2 motors on a frame is not making a helicopter lmao
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one motor.
two rotors.
:-)
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potato porato
If you're inventing things you can do what you want.
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No, he just build a thing... looking like a helicopter :D heehe... it clearly cant fly.
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But it did.
Edit: the fucker flew. Just not for the camera.
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oh ok... than congratz to him.
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People talk shit, but at least this guy fucking tried to build something, do something big and had the balls to test it himself.
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To be fair his homemade helicopter is probably closer to the real deal than anything most of us could build, so I’ll grant THAT.
When “close but no cigar” means you wind up as a pile of bloody meat next to a smouldering heap of wreckage, though, I feel like the cost/benefit analysis needs to be reconsidered.
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Great post! You got exactly what I meant, like kudos to you, you built a homemade helicopter better than most ever will, yeah, it cost him his life, but fuck, he made a helicopter!!!
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you guys may call bs, which i totally understand, but I'm a helicopter pilot. (just for fun and not for a living). There's a 100% chance he would've immediately crashed anyways. I can't stress enough how hard it is to fly a heli compared to a fixed wing aircraft. Those blades also look super imbalanced and I highly doubt he found out a way to create collective pitch. The thing was a death trap from the beginning.
Being said, what he managed to accomplish was incredible. I'm genuinely sad that he passed away doing this.
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Props for trying
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That's what happens when you learn engineering with Youtube videos.
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Sheikh: Hello Friend, I was inspired by my favorite movie '3 idiots' to build a helicopter from scratch! Let's take this thing for a spin!
Friend that did not drop out of school: Sorry bro, I've got homework to do.
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This site consistently opens my eyes to super random ways to die that I had never even thought of before
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literally. found out ppl have died hanging themselves not because they're suicidal but cuz they're trying to jack off. It's actually fucking wild how much i've learned from just casually browsing these sites.
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“Fucking dies” made me laugh lol
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Indian Space Force
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I wouldnt be going near that fucking thing even after it had stopped. People really need the internet in these countrys to learn how NOT to die
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Can someone make a slow mo of this one?
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Quick and efficient killing machine
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Thank you mr slomo. Now i see brains slicing thru samurai blades
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Thanks but the video doesn't work.
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Worked for me
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I remember when this video first came out, probably 5 years ago or so. In slow mo it looked like:
the tail rotor self destructed, either due to improper balancing or faulty material
debris immediately strikes main rotor, causing the existing rotational momentum to be transferred to the body of the copter, sending it rotating to the right (from camera POV)
this causes pilot to be sent flying in opposite direction
since there were no doors or windows, when the main rotor struck, it smacked the pilot directly in the head. Pretty sure in the original you could see brain or blood or something flying at moment of impact. The full video is quite long, I vaguely recall seeing the slowly growing pool of blood on the ground, making it clear this guy died while (halfway) in the copter.
it’s a shame how much protection he would’ve had simply wearing a helmet. Probably would’ve saved his life.
btw copter catastrophic failures are always absolutely spectacular!! Nothing self destructs quite like a copter. The bigger the better!
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one positive thing tho - This was such a quick death, he didnt feel anything.
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That sucks. Seemed like a bright guy.
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Lol saw this one on /r/makemycoffin back in the days
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jeezus, mmc blast from the past..
my fav was /r/enoughinternet, just random NSFL posts
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he literially did make his own coffin. I always think about that whenever I get into my car hoping i’m not driving my coffin
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Fuck, if you slow down the video you can see brain matter fly to the left when the guy's head gets hit by the blade
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This is why PPE is very important kids.
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The title is gold.
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Lol ikr? He didn’t just die, he FUCKING DIED
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Still had to google where the fuck on earth this is, India was my guess though. May as well have been describing how a plumbus is made
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He should have bought an helicopter from Aliexpress instead
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Wow put all that $ in that just for a one time trying to fly it & die what a waste $
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i mean it technically worked. he's in the sky now
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lol, i wonder if he went to heaven, or heli
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I never saw him go into the sky, did you see something i didnt see,
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as in, he went to heaven, bro
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lol, maybe measure your rotor blades correctly next time
i know jackshit about helicopters, and even that is obvious what happened.. fucking genius
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(asking to clarify what you meant)
Are you aware that the reason the man died was due to the smaller blade shattering and shrapnel hitting the main blade causing the whole helicopter to shift and ultimately the main blade to crumple into the pilots head; Not because the rear blade collided with the main blade due to the radius of the rotor being incorrect?
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lol, yes.. they are both rotors.. you have the main rotor on top, and then then the "tail" rotor(which broke, i agree) on the back
how am i wrong?
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I assumed you mean like “he should’ve measured the balance of his two rotors correctly (so they wouldn’t catastrophically self destruct at high speed)”
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Yeah your so smart . The tail rotor broke off sending debris into the main rotor you donkey.
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it is- "you're", genius..
it's called a "tail-rotor", just so you know..
lol, nice edit.. corrected your own self, donkey
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