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Dude makes his own flying hovercraft. Awesome

submitted by BicycleRepairMan

1 decade 4 years 2 months ago

New Zealander Rudy Heeman has been showing off his latest garage invention - a hovercraft which takes off at 70kmh. .

17 Comments

EmptyFriend says...

that looks awesome. and seems like a reasonable price (for a pretty impractical device, but still).

his name is he-man!?!?!?

Wow.

Well, if he ever hits a cross-wind, at least he's over water.

... most of the time.

42 MPH crash into water is still going to sting right

42mph isn't that bad. That's about the speed we used to peak at when water skiing. If y fall, you mainly bounce along the surface for a bit, while you slow down. And unlike asphalt or concrete, you don't get road rash from it.

holy crap, that looks amazingly fun

I wonder if the rudderish thing that is used for steering acts as a vertical stabilizer? If not, he could add some vertical winglets or something.

See ground effect vehicle

Was anyone else thinking that the music sounded like F Zero?!

fzero!

what? no landing video?

and classified as a marine craft, no pilot license needed!

Awesome! I would want one, if I had a lake nearby. I doubt it would handle nicely with big waves.

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