I have a similar story. In 1978 in Ghana, in the town of Ho, a man tried to build his own helicopter.
At that time, I was based in Accra as a helicopter pilot, and the man on the picture came to meet me at the airport to get some technical information, bringing this photo with him to show his project.
He told me that he had installed a VW Kombi engine, and he had also managed to perform some ground runs...
Not surprisingly, he had a lot of vibration and ground resonance problems...
No more news since that time.
