Aircraft Maker to Make A Test Run

An innovative Kenyan is just about to test the results of his brainchild. Gabriel Nderitu, an I.T specialist is putting final touches to an aeroplane he has been assembling for the last one year ahead of a test run in Kitengela next week. If indeed Nderitu's two seater plane takes off, and more importantly, lands successfully, then it will be a first for Kenya. Sylvia Chebet tells us more about the budding innovator and how close he is to becoming Kenya's pioneer in aircraft manufacturing.

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[Zonnewende88]

Is this hightech plane on the market yet?

With this superiour plane, civilian space travel even seems possible!

Thank you Kenia.....

[theoriginal68niou1]

This has fail written all over it.

[Frank Burns]

Yeah, shocking, right?

[john king]

was he not supposed to try a car b4 a plane? good job though

[terry jim]

"surprisingly though, he is no engineer and has no background in aviation engineering."

[Quacktics are Go]

2:14. Pun intended.

[Quacktics are Go]

Why would anyone laugh at this? I live in Britain, a developed country and I have no idea how I'd sorce the stuff to begin making this.

[MultiAbdelrahim]

people like this need to be supported financially by the kenyan government, for a person who hasn't studied engineering....... this is one major development....... if this project is succesful with the support of his government, they can start mass producing this aircraft to support kenyas people and economy, then in the next stage built larger planes and so on..... its never too late for development

from your ex neighbor Sudan :)

[MultiAbdelrahim]

totally agreed!

[Itzda Joos]

Yeah but how long ago did the Wright brothers figure that stuff out? And how far have we come since then? In other words, all the ground work's been done so that you can step on & move forward from whatever point you start NOT go back to the Wright brothers days like this guy. Come on... sheesh...

[enow0049]

I bet this guy is smarter than the average wanna be engineers who post comments laughing at his work.

[Itzda Joos]

Surely proof that all men are created equally! By contrast, those backwards germans producing jet aircraft & experimenting with anti-gravity propulsion in the 1940s were so far behind weren't they (rolls eyes)...