RSSGarage Hack: Hovercraft
This fellow built a hovercraft for his son out of junk in his garage using the plans he found online. He used a countertop as the base, a leaf blower as the "lifter", PVC pip, Goop glue, plastic sheeting and duct tape. Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
May 17, 2005 05:07 PM
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This looks like a version of the hovercrafts at http://www.xinventions.com/main/hovercrafts/home.htm
LOL! The "i-hacked" hovercraft article is plagarized from my site.
Here's my original:
Yeah, The project is an old stand-by.
I built one when I was 10 years old, which was 1976. I ordered the plans from an ad in the back of "Boy's Life" magazine. I was envisioning driving it to school. I was really dissapointed when I found out that I was going to be limited to having a couple of friends push me back and forth on the garage floor :)
hey man, i really like what you did for your son, and some day...maybe some day i will be just like you...my father. yes thats right. you are my father, i love you with all my heart. i will never forget the time when i came out of my mother and saw you. man. we rode those crafts a hovering all night long. i never forgot about that. i still have the hovercraft you gave me when i was just a young lad. man. i created my own hovercraft and flew over the moon when i saw the chicken croak in the heavens of joraadur.
hey man, i really like what you did for your son, and some day...maybe some day i will be just like you...my father. yes thats right. you are my father, i love you with all my heart. i will never forget the time when i came out of my mother and saw you. man. we rode those crafts a hovering all night long. i never forgot about that. i still have the hovercraft you gave me when i was just a young lad. man. i created my own hovercraft and flew over the moon when i saw the chicken croak in the heavens of joraadur.
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