pic: Swamp HoverCart

[Rob Colatutto]

What are you using right now to power it? And you could also use the big muffin fans they give you each year in the kit. We had a little fun playing with them last year similar to what your doing with this.

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by Rob Colatutto
What are you using right now to power it? And you could also use the big muffin fans they give you each year in the kit.

From the pictures he's posted, it looks like he's using three of the standard 120mm*38mm fans, along with an electric hand drill's battery pack.

[jon]

Add a platform and some handles and some stablization, and this thing will own the Segway.

It'd be like in Back to the Future...

[sanddrag]

Originally posted by jon
Add a platform and some handles and some stablization, and this thing will own the Segway.

It'd be like in Back to the Future...

Well you sure could stand on both of them but only one will go somewhere.

Now, if you get a couple weedwacker engines...

[RogerR]

tytus-

i'm curious as to how you made the skirt, and what material you used. this has always been a problem that grounds my home-brewed hovercraft projects.

[Andrew Rudolph]

I know when i have made my hover crafts ive used garbage bags, It looks like tytus did too. I know in my case i used a bag for leaves and outdoors stuff so its a little thicker and using low temp hot glue doesnt make the plastic melt and gives a nice seal.

[Adam Y.]

I know when i have made my hover crafts ive used garbage bags, It looks like tytus did too. I know in my case i used a bag for leaves and outdoors stuff so its a little thicker and using low temp hot glue doesnt make the plastic melt and gives a nice seal.

Garbage bags souns a little bit too light for anything designed to carry a human. If you want something that can carry a human take a trip to your local army surplus store and get a nylon tent. That should be light enough and strong enough to carry a human.

[AJ Quick]

Originally posted by jon
Add a platform and some handles and some stablization, and this thing will own the Segway.

Well that has been done a few times, here is an example..



They don't appear to ride that high off the ground though.

http://www.airboard.com.au/

[Tytus Gerrish]

Originally posted by RogerR
tytus-

i'm curious as to how you made the skirt, and what material you used. this has always been a problem that grounds my home-brewed hovercraft projects.

Dude, Its just a garbage bag and duckt tape

while were at it
Light poliber sign material
An ovaoltine lid
a 1/4 inch bolt, nut and washers
3 Big victor fans
1 Fisher price motor
1 ptopler taken from helicopter toy
Some ke-nex
1 or two 14.4 dril bateries
Garbage bag
Duckt tape


Total Cost To me......... $0.00


See, its easy

[Ian W.]

those airboards aren't true hovercraft. they have a small "kicker" wheel in the bottom, to give it an accelerated start. when you lean back, the wheel touches the ground, makes you go faster, well, faster. a true hovercraft will never touch the ground once in flight (it's not touching ground, it must be flying ).