Comments on: Home Engineering: Building a Hovercraft

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Your post takes me back 20 years when in my final year engineering we made a practical working hovercraft. In summary it was like this.
The engine for air cushion was a 100cc motorbike engine
The forward thrust was a high rpm wankel also of 100cc.
The frame was of wood and so were the props. The air cushion was made of rexiene. It weighed about 150kgs and could carry a human payload of 2 persons.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:04:43 +0000

That’s pretty cool. When I was a kid I was inspired by back to the future and their hover board, so I made a model of a magnetic hover half pipe and board. I never made a full size one. Uh ohh, you’ll probably steal my idea now and get rich. Oh well, I’m over it.

By: Dave Brown

Dave Brown — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:13:48 +0000

I found it interesting that your prototype didn’t work. It looked like the fan was just too heavy. I was also wondering why you went with just the 1 hole in the bottom for the final version? Don’t most hover crafts have a bunch of little holes? And your final fan sounded like it was really really loud. Definitely not something you’re going to creep up on your neighbors with.