Home-made helicopters hit northern Nigeria

For a four-seater it is a big aircraft, measuring twelve metres (39 feet) long, seven meters high by five wide. It has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet.

He said he learned the rudiments of flying a helicopter from the Internet and first got the idea of building one from the films he watches on television.

"I watched action movies a lot and I was fascinated by the way choppers fly. I decided it would be easier to build one than to build a car," he said pacing the premises of the security division of the university which he uses as hanger for his helicopter.

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