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Some time ago Thanh Cheaka ‘Mr. Ho’, a youtuber Vietnamese with more than 1.4 million subscribers, had a crazy idea: to sail the rivers of his country with a flying template. Literally. For anyone else, an idea like that would have remained just that: a crazy dream. It took Mr. Ho to get to work and build a kind of boat made with little more than sand, fiberglass and the propulsion system of a jet ski. However, the most curious thing is not the result, but the process. Mr. Ho Thanh Che. To ‘Mr. He’s up for challenges. Especially those that involve assembling (or repairing) motorized devices with materials that anyone could find without too many complications. In recent years this has led it to manufacture your own boatstart a car that had been rotting for years in the middle of the jungle, ride a vehicle with materials taken from a landfill or designing a jet ski shaped like a giant spider. A water UFO. As if all of the above were not enough, some time ago Mr. Ho decided to go one step further and create a flying saucer capable of crossing the rivers of Vietnam at full speed. It sounds crazy (and it is), but that’s just what the youtuber shows in a video of just one hour in which he documents the entire process: from the moment he imagines the design (in his dreams) to the moment he takes his ‘flying saucer boat’ into the water. The challenge is so fascinating that the video has more than 30 million views. And that’s just on Mr. Ho’s personal account. The piece has been shared on other channels in which it accumulates thousands and thousands of views. Nothing surprising if we take into account that the youtuber It does not have a large workshop, nor access to exclusive parts. In his projects (including the UFO project) he uses the resources he has at hand, even if sometimes they are little more than scrap metal. playing with sand. The most curious thing about the project is how it starts. For someone with access to industrial molds or modern milling machines, manufacturing the hull of the flying saucer wouldn’t have much substance. Mr. Ho had to settle for a solution more rudimentary: He traced the silhouette of the saucer on the ground of a patio, piled sand on top, and then shaped the mound with the help of a rotating arm made from scrap metal. The goal: create a symmetrical dome. That kind of sand shell served as his starting point. Then the youtuber He poured cement, consolidated the shape and used it as a framework to make the two halves of the hull (aka space saucer) with fiberglass. By hand. Step by step. With the same patience that would be used to make a piece of craftsmanship. With the helmet ready, he opened several hexagonal-shaped holes. Under way. To move the ‘flying saucer boat’, Mr. Ho opted for a solution similar to that of jet skis: a hydrojet systemjet propulsion, which is powered by an engine allows a turbine to absorb water and then expel it at high pressure. Among other things, this avoids external propellers. So that his particular flying saucer could be handled more easily, the youtuber used a deflector attached to a cable that in turn directs the water jet. The video shows how that solution allows you to direct the jet and make tight turns. As it is housed in a hollow cavity in the inner hull, the engine does not break the spaceship aesthetic that its creator wanted to give it. A carpeted flying saucer. On this occasion Mr. Ho was not satisfied with creating a boat in the shape of a flying jig. He also wanted to take care of the details of the design. Both external and internal. On the outside it included LEDs, solar panels and a dark gray color that gives the result an aesthetic that is partly (partly) reminiscent of the B-2 bombers of the USAF. Inside, Ho opted for the same philosophy: taking care of the details, including carpet, soundproofing and tinted acrylic windows. In a nod to his main platform as a creator, he gave the ship a yoke-type steering wheel with the YouTube logo. It is difficult to determine whether the pilot is traveling comfortably, but the video of the maiden voyage It shows that at least the ship is stable and fast. Images | Tech Freeze, Mr Ho Via | Passion Engine In Xataka | Engineers (and not aliens) have created a flying saucer that flies and is completely functional