Home Engineering: Building a Hovercraft
Posted on July 10, 2009 Comments (5)
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Categories: Engineering, Podcast, Students
Tags: Engineering, engineering webcasts, experiment, fun, home engineering, kids, Products, webcasts
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July 13th, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
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.
July 14th, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
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.
May 9th, 2010 @ 1:28 pm
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November 19th, 2010 @ 9:00 am
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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