Homebuilt Helicopter from beginning to end

awesome helicopter you have there. wish i could give it two thumbs up but youtube only allows one.

I have to say...I am impressed, from building the machine to learning how to fly it...much respect...

I'm not a pilot but I like to watch vids like this. When you tire of RC flying but still have the urge to burn gas and money, there's always hobbies like this! Kudos to the builder & pilot, you kick ass!

This is the ultimate youtube video. Crazy diy contraption, totally sketchy, low video quality, shaky camera, commentary from a twelve year old, filmed in the backyard. Amazing. Perfection.

I've had a few questions regarding the build that are buried in the comments. So here are some basic figures..... All up weight with Operator and fuel = 350 kg (770 lbs) (aprox) Main rotor diameter = 6.6 m (21.65 ft) Tail rotor = 1.04 m (3.41 ft) Engine = 140 hp Evinrude outboard (1600 cc ) about 46 kg (108 lbs) RPM's = Engine 4900 rpm MR 510 rpm TR 3100 rpm Main rotors = shortened Hughes 500 Tail rotor = home made folded 2024 aluminum around titanium tube spar. Bonded and rivited. Structural aluminium parts = 6061 and laminated 5083 marine grade sheet. Landing gear (hoops) = laminated glass and ply. Fiberglass fuel tank. Micro controller for instruments etc. = Picaxe 40A USB out for simulator. Cheers.

Every dislike is from someone that can't afford a helichopter, or doesn't have the courage to build one! Amazing work...inspiring to say the least!

12 years pursuing your goal is definitely a huge inspiration to me! Bravo from Haiti!!!!!

Outstanding Achievement! Congratulations!

Outstanding in every context! The ship is incredibly solid/stable and your piloting is wonderful! This makes me delirious and I'm burning to jump in! i just can't comprehend the issues around being "allowed" to test your invention. No one has the right to suppress the creativity and expression of man! It's God's stuff! Bless you and ever forward Cameron.

This is like just getting started in remote control flight, so building an SR remote control heli from scratch except going right for 1:1 scale and then deciding the best approach is to put the controller and the pilot right inside the bird. You've got a yard of guts and some serious ingenuity, I'm very, very impressed. NICE WORK. :-)

Superb effort, Bro. I think your balls of steel was weighing the helicopter down and stopping you from getting any higher... 

WoW! Gotta hand it to you for courage. That large spinning guillotine overhead doesn't encourage me to fly a heli but after a bit of paperwork back in the early 70s I managed to get a private pilot's license limited to centerline thrust and hand operated rudder as I was and am a paraplegic. I was one of the first but there are many now (which is somewhat scary). I knew that the FAA examiner would be more than interested on how I could do crosswind landings so spent hours and hours practicing 90 deg. crosswinds until I could nail it every time. The guy was so impressed he just said "head home" and I thought he was failing me without the rest of the flight tests. When we got back, he congratulated me and said commercial pilots couldn't have done it that well. I took the test in a Piper Cherokee Six BTW which I had purchased since no one would rent me a aircraft back then even though the hand rudder was a simple bolt-on deal taking 5 minutes.

this is cool the way he is teaching himself how to fly, at first I didn't know then I figured it out, he was in school at first and he should give himself a A+ for the class

I wish I have the chance to meet people like this. It will be my greatest joy. I like designing and building things like this. I just wish I was born in a better country.

Hi bud, I wish you could realize just how many of us took the rides with you. Our asses were just as puckered as yours was. You da man, man. Thanks for letting us fly with you.

I'm just amazed and inspired by the fact that with much effort one can achieve unmeasurable goals, I would've been trilled to be part of your project development. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your success!

How can people 'dislike' this? The guy BUILT and FLEW his own helicopter!!!  Kudos man :)

Day one un-tethered  to dynamic balancing main rotors. A total of about seven hours with about two hours off the ground. Now a museum piece hanging in my shed. Operator training was done using the XPlane simulator only. (Do not try this at home, haha). Unfortunately all of this is illegal in most countries.

I worked as a helicopter field engineer in Papua New Guinea in the 70s and 80s on many different types.My only claim to fame was building a Bell 47 from the ground up,but that pales compared to what you achieved,I didn't sleep at all last night I lie awake trying to get m,y head around it.You imagined it designed it assembled and engineered it.Then to cap it off you hovered it like a champion.Mate you are pure genius and i reckon Igor Sikorsky and the Wright brothers are smiling down on you because you are a kindred spirit to them.

Great Job! This is how human been has moving forward without given up facing any obstacles in life.