Maybe they were bored. Or perhaps they’d had too much sun. And not enough sleep. But when George Wilkins and Will McCallum were asked to come up with an end-of-year project for their University of Otago design paper, their minds immediately went to helicopters.
“We started mucking around with the laser printer and came up with kitset wooden helicopters, which somehow worked,” says McCallum (now 27). The pair ended up selling them as a fund-raiser for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.