Jim Ryan built this 1/24th scale remote-controlled Chinook helicopter. It doesn’t do much more than take off, wobble in the air, then land, but for a hand-built model I think that’s more than okay. Just getting a tandem-rotor R/C chopper to get up in the air at all is impressive.

Bonus link: a fan-made video of Boards of Canada’s “Chinook” from the album “Boc Maxima,” which was released before their more famous “Music Has the Right to Children.” [Youtube]