When Jamie Hyneman and I built hovercrafts for Mythbusters, I realized that these floating-on-air vehicles were easy to make, not too expensive, and fun. So I built one with my kids. Cut a ...

When you think of a vehicle that can do it all- water, land, ice, snow and more- the hovercraft often comes to mind. And while they might not be ubiquitous, hovercraft catch the imagination of many a ...

First cut a 1.2-metre-diameter circle from out of the 2cm-thick plywood. Put your leaf blower -- it doesn't matter if it's petrol or electric, it's up to you -- in the middle and then figure out where ...

These days, it’s pretty cheap and easy to build your own little RC hovercraft. [ValRC] demonstrates just that with a hovercraft build that is surprisingly nimble, and fast to boot. The build started ...

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Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Alberta, Canada, spent nearly 2,000 hours building an operational hovercraft from salvaged car parts and with no blueprint. By Emmett Lindner On a cold spring day in a ...

My guess is that most of the guys out there would love their own R/C hovercraft, but the bottom line is that not everyone can afford a fancy commercial version. Well, if you have some junk lying ...

Talking about the concepts of airflow and friction might bore your kids to tears, so why not bring fun into the science classroom with this build-it-yourself hovercraft project? Your kids will have so ...

Hovercrafts have the distinct advantage of being just as comfortable on water as they are on land, but usually at the cost of a pretty ugly and utilitarian design. So the engineers at Mercier-Jones ...