Homemade copter puts fresh spin on traffic woes

Flight of fancy: Jujun (right) working on his homemade helicopter guided by online instructional videos. — AFP

Sukabumi (Indonesia): Indonesia’s notorious traffic gridlock has been known to send commuters into a spin, but one man has decided to rise above the daily grind – by building his very own helicopter.

Jujun Junaedi spends his free time in a backyard tinkering with his project, guided by instructional videos, as he dreams of flying above the snarled roads of his hometown Sukabumi.