An Ethiopian man, Asmelash Zeferu has built a plane with tutorial videos on YouTube. 35-year-old Zeferu's childhood dream was to become a pilot but he was rejected by the Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy and since he couldn't realize his dream, he decided to build a plane.
"I decided to build my own aircraft if I couldn't be a pilot," he told CNN. "Then I'd be able to fly high in the sky."
For 10 years, Zeferu worked on his dream, salvaging
spare parts from second-hand markets and handcrafting certain parts like
the airplane’s wings. He then upgraded the 48 horsepower Volkswagen
Beetle engine to 78 for his two-seater aircraft and settled for the
wheelbase of a Suzuki motorcycle as his landing gear.
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