Chinese MacGyver builds working helicopter out of wood!!!

Now and forever, no one will ever dispute that this man isn’t Awesome! Just read that Awesome header. And he’s only 20! Awesome!

20 year old Chinese farmer Wu Zhongyuan built himself a helicopter using only what he remembers from middle school physics lessons and “relevant knowledge [found while] surfing the Internet via my mobile phone.”

Well, sure looks like things worked out. His single-seater conveyance has blades made from the wood of an Elm tree, a frame reinforced with steel pipes and uses an engine from a motorcycle — all for around $1,600. Wu claims the ‘copter can get him as high as 2,600 feet [800 metres], though it seems he’s grounded for the time being as the Chinese government has forbid him to fly because of safety reasons.

Wu Zhongyuan, whose father Wu Xizhao, pegs him as a gadget lover who would always take things apart, says that he “had this dream from childhood of not needing to climb mountains anymore. I wanted to go to school in my own flying machine.” [Dvice]

Talk about dream killers; Let the man fly!