2015년 2월 12일 목요일

This guy made a plane in his back garden

BBC News Magazine
 
 
 
Afternoon all,

When George was a child he wanted to see if he could fly. He made wings from curtains and climbed to the top of his roof, and then jumped off the roof. He nearly broke his leg but, undeterred, he eventually made this light aircraft.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
He put the airframe together from aluminium found in metal workshops in his hometown of Juba, and he imported two small petrol engines to power it. The pilot’s seat is a garden chair. The only thing is, George hasn’t been granted permission to test fly the plane, so he can only taxi it round his own back garden.

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