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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The Currycopter
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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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I'd give him props but he looks like he has it covered
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What a fucking retard
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Energy intensive, seated guillotine
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This is like some African space program shit
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Bro is him
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Basically Oceangate's billionaire death trap submersible
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poor guy. rip
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Almost had it...
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It’s working! It’s working!
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And this is why you ALWAYS wear protective gear. Literally the only time he didn't use it is when it malfunctioned and killed him. Sure, at such high speeds maybe the helmet would have done jackshit against the blade, but still better die trying to protect yourself somehow.
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Should have stayed in school lol
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Then at the end, he melted.
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Well maybe you shouldn't build helicopters when you have dropped out of school in class 8
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Respect for this chad
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you guys should give "3 idiots" a watch. gives this vid kinda a deeper meaning. good movie tho
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Looks like some bad piggies type shit
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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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Soeone needs to dub this with the "helicopter helicopter" song
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unlucky
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At least it was him testing it this time around. can you imagine if he let one of his buddies try it out?
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That's what happens when you learn engineering with Youtube videos.
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Alas, great strides in science are made through great sacrifice.
(to the god of helicopter rotor blades and instant death)
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Man almost built a fucking helicopter.
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Red loctite, a little goes a long way.
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if i’m going to die other than old age, I want it to be something innovative like this. this is why I appreciate anyone who has risked anything to try to accomplish anything to further humanity and creativity, I feel sorry that it did not work in his favor however, hopefully the creators and innovators of the future will wear helmets and other PPE. stay curious!
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"He was inspired by the character of ‘Rancho’ in the movie ‘3 idiots’ "
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Jokes on them, it was a suicide machine.
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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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Dude probably knew how dangerous it was, but still decided to test it himself with his friends at a safe distance.
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Well props to him no pun intended 😄😄
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Tears of the Kingdom constructs:
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“Fucking dies” made me laugh lol
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and that's how dummies were invented
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He’s literally smarter then you…
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TAKEEEEE OFFF
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I now have clear idea on who's actually going up.
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This is why PPE is very important kids.
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HE JUST GOT COCONUT MALLED
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"Stay INSIDE the vehicle at all times"
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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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