China's DIY Aviators Take Flight 113
ScuttleMonkey writes "China’s emerging aviator class is spreading its wings with a plethora of approaches, from the ramshackle to the sophisticated to the potentially revolutionary. They’re using everything imaginable, from old motorcycle engines to electric motors to even their own legs, like Mao Yiqing and his human-powered airplane. You could easily plot these adventurous innovators on a graph, with the X axis showing their skill and the Y axis their financial means."
Got nuthin (Score:4, Funny)
The problem with Chinese experimental homebuilt aircraft is, a half hour after you test fly it, you....
Re:Gotta say it... (Score:5, Funny)
With two measurable qualities, couldn't you graph anything on? # of cabbages sold per day, number of kills I get playing Team Fortress 2 per day. Other than what day it is, they're not related.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. You can graph any two variables you say? Sounds like witchcraft to me. burn the demon!
And in the Z axis (Score:5, Funny)
Time airborn I assume...
Re:Gotta say it... (Score:3, Funny)
Escaping! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Escaping! (Score:3, Funny)
Some people will do just about ANYTHING to escape a communist dictatorship.
I don't know... that one guy did create a people [wikipedia.org] powered plane.
If you have enough people... (Score:4, Funny)
It takes more than 4 Chinese to build an aircraft, because two Wongs don't make a Wright.