China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight motorcycle engines

Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by bsmith on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:03PM (#3045444)

Assuming he didn't study mechanical engineering either, the fact that he's still alive proves he's good enough at self-teaching to figure that one out well enough. (Hell, he didn't even wear safety glasses.)

Given that, I bet he wouldn't be too hard-pressed to sort out the control part in typical hacker fashion. How many hackers on HN are expert programmers who weren't formally trained?

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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by softbuilder on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:31PM (#3045742)

I don't recall any of my programming mistakes chopping my head off.

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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by dorian-graph on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:39PM (#3045764)

Then you can't say you're truly living. :P

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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by Groxx on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @01:38AM (#3046641)

This is easy to fix. You just need to hook Jenkins up to a real rocket launcher, rather than this: https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation

You can even keep most of the readme intact :)

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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by tintin on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @02:55AM (#3046809)

Unless you are programming something like this: http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/ (Space Invader deleting files on your drive) ;)

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