20-year-old Wu Zhongyuan, a farmer from Henan province. He has since childhood dreamed of flying and spent three months and $1,600 building a shanzai helicopter. The airframe is fabricated from a steel scaffold. Power comes from an old 150cc motorcycle engine driving Elm wood blades. Zhongyuan claims the chopper will fly to 800 meters (2,600 feet), but so far hasn’t been able to prove it.

 

 

Provincial authorities have forbidden him from flying on safety grounds.