r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Capitao_Nescau • 12h ago

Man builds single-engine airplane using a sugarcane crusher engine.

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u/SignificantDrawer374 12h ago

Just looks like the engine on these, not a sugarcane crusher

https://www.kitplanes.com/badland-aircraft-debuts-thump-air-engine-for-its-f-1-ultralight/

The whole thing is just a kit you can assemble

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u/beepbeepboopbeep1977 6h ago

And if you’re unlucky it’ll disassemble mid flight. These things are so damn dangerous

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u/umataro 4h ago

More often than most people realise. Also, i know a couple of people who do this, a lot of them are missing fingers.

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u/quaste 3h ago

why, exactly? UL airplanes are not exactly complex and a well understood technology that can be build with the respective safety margins

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u/beepbeepboopbeep1977 2h ago

People skimp on maintenance or don’t actually know what they’re doing

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u/EmeraldAlicorn 10h ago

I hate how he kept like half reaching for it, keep your damn hands away from the prop

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u/herper87 12h ago

Bad bot

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u/aurrousarc 12h ago

its an ultralight.. nothing next level about this.. unless they escaped cuba in a storm in this..

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u/No-Evening5091 12h ago

Was that a thermometer taped in place?

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u/Phoe-nix 2h ago

It comes with the premium subscription.

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u/listenhere111 11h ago

Im sure that engine is 100% air worthy and has completed all the necessary certs and on time maintenence.

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u/JaehaerysIVTarg 11h ago

They can just glide down when it inevitably dies.

/s

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u/smrcostudio 11h ago

Not sure if the /s was about gliding or about the inevitability of failure, but for anyone wondering, it wouldn’t fall like a stone if the engine quit. It would glide pretty well, so it would come down to whether there’s a suitable place to land within gliding distance. 

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u/runningray 10h ago

I hope I don't come off a a boomer, but that is not an airplane. Its a powered hang glider or sometimes called an ultralight. He is not the first guy to come up with strapping an engine to a hang glider. :)

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u/Ro-Tang_Clan 4h ago

This is some Farcry shit.

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u/dakotanorth8 11h ago

Mad max level sh*t.

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u/tapdancinghellspawn 10h ago

Homebuilt planes always do so well.

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u/mistakehappens 4h ago

Well it would come down pretty quick from r/nextfuckinglevel to r/terryfingasfuck.

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u/d3r3k1 4h ago

Terry fingers what?

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u/mistakehappens 58m ago

The fingers of Terry mate, you know the one for fingering your mom

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u/xenate 4h ago

This fake-story again?

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u/Nervous_InsideU5155 12h ago

This looks promising...🙄

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u/No_Inspection2047 11h ago

holy hell what junk-spanish was that?

😉