Comment by Ellison Chan on April 10, 2012 at 8:59am

Many model aircraft are build with wood and gas powered motors.  As long as the modeller has building skills planes can be made with almost any light weight material.  There's nothing so special about this from my POV.  Some of the quadcopters build by people on this very forum use wooden sticks for arms.

Comment by Cronselaar on April 10, 2012 at 9:09am

Wow, i'm really impressed... Normal cloth and all... To think that it flies so niceley...

Comment by estebanflyer on April 10, 2012 at 9:50am

the modeler has skill. good looking planes!

Comment by Chivar Maximillan Pilones on April 10, 2012 at 11:12am

he is the afghan mcgyver :)

Comment by Cliff-E on April 10, 2012 at 11:15am

I converted my jdrones quad to a basswood-based quad after a crash. Its flight was pretty smooth. Converted to a basswood Y6, which worked for a few flights then eventually the wood started to fatigue a bit (vibration) since I had thru-hole mounting...

As the saying goes, if it has a CD (coef. of drag), you can make it fly.

Comment by Jeremy Douglas on April 10, 2012 at 2:08pm

I would say what makes it impressive is the lack of resources in Afghanistan... Good to see some innovation.

Comment by Alex Arevalo on April 10, 2012 at 2:22pm

I guess that chainsaws would be fairly easy to get, but where did he get his props? Did he hand carve them?

Comment by estebanflyer on April 10, 2012 at 2:30pm

Same as all of us: order them online.

Comment by Jan Detlefsen on April 10, 2012 at 9:48pm

why is this a drone and not a normal rc model?

Developer Comment by John Arne Birkeland on April 11, 2012 at 2:01am

Because "Drone" results in more article hits then "remote controlled airplane".

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