21. Fifty Years Of Hovercraft: The Tech That Barely Takes Off A Jetsonsera cultural dream silently became a reality, but it never quite fulfilled its promise. What happened? Take the Wired News tour of future http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2007/08/gallery_hovercraft

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22. Mark's Model Hovercraft - Home www.modelhovercraft.com/ - 1k - Cached - Similar pages Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languagesHow to tell people that your hovercraft has been infested with eels in many different languages - possibly the most useful phrase in any language. http://www.model-hovercraft.com/

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23. Science Experiment - Build A Real Working Hovercraft! (friction And Air) Once again Reeko delivers the unbelievable. Learn how to make your very own hovercraft! http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpHoverCraft.htm

Supplies: Cardboard Pencil Glue Paper Thread Spool Balloon Mouse (optional) Build a real working hovercraft! So you want your very own hovercraft. Well once again, Reeko is here to help. Of course it's only big enough to hold a mouse (maybe two if the first one scrunches down real low) but hey, we're not old enough for a driver's license anyway... Cut a 4 inch square out of the cardboard. Punch a hole in the cardboard - you may need to get an adult to do this part. If you attempt it yourself be very careful. Make sure you punch the hole in the center of the cardboard. The hole should be the same size as the hole in the spool. Glue the spool to the cardboard on top of the hole. Make sure you glue it real good. Make sure the holes line up. Make sure you use enough glue to assure that no air can escape between the spool and the piece of cardboard. Make sure you put the lid back on the glue when you're finished. Cover the top of the spool with a circle of paper - glue it to the spool and wait until the glue is good and dry.

24. Goldstein Hovercraft, LLC Goldstein hovercraft announces the availability of its fun, easy to build, educational, very affordable model hovercraft kits. http://www.gohover.com/

This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. Product Summaries and Prices Where to buy GH-1 Single Motor Hovercraft Kit Skirt included ... How GH Construction Kits Work How the GH models hover How the airbox works How the skirt works How to control your hovercraft Experiment! The care and feeding of batteries Interesting Projects Adding radio control Using hand-held batteries Using Alternative Power Sources Rubberband Power Flywheel Power Compressed Air Engine Power and saving the best for last... A Solar Powered RC Hovercraft! Home Enjoy Eric Goldstein's personal account of Hovercrafting In Chicago

25. Model Hovercraft Radio control hovercraft model design, construction and operating. Details of models and their builders, as well as detailed construction information. http://members.aol.com/modelhov1/pubpage.htm

Model Hovercraft Homepage Building, Designing and Operating Model Hovercraft Kevin Jackson 's Hovercraft Pages My SR.N1 Radio Controlled Model Hovercraft (More details of this and my other model hovercraft designs can be found by clicking on the picture above) Hovercraft Books Written by Kevin Jackson Available through: HOVERCRAFTmodels.com Introduction to RC Hovercraft Discover the Hovercraft Welcome to the Hovercraft Models Homepage Come on in and explore Click below... NOTE: Occasional web server problems sometimes stop the links below working This rc hovercraft site also carries all my web pages Radio control Hovercraft Model Building Model Builders and their Models New ! Build Your Own Model Hovercraft The HoverRing is made possible by the Webring This HoverRing site is owned by Kevin Jackson Want to join the HoverRing Skip Prev Prev Next ... List Sites Click Here for information on how to join the ring or look at a complete list of HoverRing members. Last Revised: Nov 2004

26. Hovercraft - Definition From The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Definition of hovercraft from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hovercraft

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27. Building An Autonomous Hovercraft A recent instructables article provides stepby-step instructions on building an autonomous or remote-control hovercraft. The chassis is made from http://robots.net/article/2441.html

Home Comics Robots Humans ... Account Building an Autonomous Hovercraft Posted 10 Jan 2008 at 23:59 UTC by steve A recent instructables article provides step-by-step instructions on building an autonomous or remote-control hovercraft. The chassis is made from insulation foam covered with carbon fiber composite. A nylon skirt and a big brushless DC motor provide the hover power. Two smaller Rimfire brushless motors with variable pitch props provide thrust and steering. A PIC microcontroller is used along with a XBee wireless communications module for remote control. The robot also has ultrasonic range sensors. The article includes video of the finished robot hover over a snowfield. X Share this page del.icio.us Digg Google bookmark reddit Simpy StumbleUpon Furl Newsvine Technorati Tailrank

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Hovercraft Resources Your Source for Hovercraft Plans, Design, Information and Resources Hovercraft Articles Hovercraft Plans Hovercraft Game Hovercraft Links ... Reload This Home Page HTML Validated New Hovercraft Plans Now Available The latest design in hovercraft plans has arrived - The HC-111 proof of concept hovercraft! The HC-111 has been developed to provide information about the viability of small hovercraft without the use of propellers. Although similar concepts have been applied for various commercial purposes, they are seldom seen in smaller recreational hovercraft. These plans are a great way to get started! Click here for more informaton About These Hovercraft Plans! Free Hovercraft Plans Free hovercraft plans are now available on this site! These free plans offer excellent insight into the basic construction of a homebuilt hovercraft. Register now to receive your free hovercraft plans today! Sign Up Now! Click Here To Get The Free Hovercraft Plans! Free "Building a Hovercraft" Report If you haven't received the free report entitled The Facts You Should Know Before "Building a Hovercraft" you can still sign up for it in the text box below. The report outlines some of the important principles behind the basic development of a small hovercraft.

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30. Welcome An organization for the control and promotion of sporting and cruising light hovercraft operation in the United Kingdom. http://www.hovercraft.org.uk/

Welcome Welcome About us Events ... Site map Forthcoming events. 3-5 May National Race Meeting Jakes Place, The Shade, Leicestershire 10-11 May European Race Meeting Freiberg Germany 24-26 May National Race Meeting Magnolls Farm 7-8 Jun National Race Meeting Rother Valley 14-15 Jun European Race Meeting Wijhe, Holland 12-13 Jul National Race Meeting Claydon House, Buckinghamshire 26-27 Jul National Race Meeting Gang Warily, Hants 20-24 Aug World Championships Flottsbro, Sweden 6-7 Sep National Race Meeting Blackditch, Somerset 25 Oct EHF Discussion Meeting Vise, Belgium This is a shortened version of our events calendar. You can find the full list here Welcome. The Hovercraft Club of Great Britain (HCGB) is the prime organisation for the control and operation of sporting Hovercraft within the United Kingdom. The principal aims of the Club are to encourage the safe operation of light Hovercraft for sporting and recreational purposes and provide assistance in the design and construction of sporting Hovercraft. On this site you can find out more about the HCGB, our history (in brief), our branches, contacts and more. We have plenty of information here about all aspects of the club so take a look around and then come join us.

31. Hovercraft History & Hovercraft Museum Website - Index hovercraft History Offical hovercraft Museum Site. http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/

An on-line encyclopedia describing the history of Hovercraft and the official web site of The hover craft Museum Trust Building 40, Daedalus Site, Argus Gate, Chark Lane, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire PO13 9NY Tel / Fax: 023 9255 2090 Patrons: Frances Airy (née Cockerell), Christopher Bland, Lord Romsey, Lord Hotham, Viscount Coke, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, Joseph Sullivan, Lord Somerleyton, Ray Wheeler Museum Trustees: Alan Burns Andy Gunton-Bunn Mervyn Davies , Terry George, Warwick Jacobs Chris Potter Mick Wells Next Event Hovershow 2008 (Summer 2008 - Dates to be announced) Site Index: Click below for subjects Main Contents Page The Hovercraft Museum The Hovercraft Museum Newsletter Archive The Hovercraft Society ... Links Visits to the Hovercraft Museum Collection The Hovercraft Museum Trust maintains a collection at our storage site at the former HMS Daedalus at Lee-on-the-Solent. As we are just a collection at present, the Museum is not yet open to the public as a matter of course, and the office is not yet permanently manned, however we have volunteer staff attending the site on most Saturdays. We do hold several shows during the year, and this gives the public an opportunity to view the collection. Anyone wishing to visit to the collection at the Daedalus site on a Saturday morning should contact us via e-mail , or on the office number - 023 9255 2090 - to arrange this. To gain access to the site you will need to join us as a supporter

32. Hovercraft, Hovercraft, All Hover Amphibious Craft Hov Pod hovercraft are designed for leisure, rescue, commercial and patrol hovercraft applications. http://www.hovpod.com/

Hov Pod Hovercraft Hovercraft - Hov Pod w Hovercraft Fun! Small hover craft have been developed for racing, and until fairly recently, were mainly homemade hovercraft created from plans. Leisure hovercraft, or cruising hovercraft, are designed with marine safety in mind. The Hov Pod hovercraft resembles a hovercar, and is very easy to drive. These amphibious vehicles are great fun, hover over any flat surface, including water, ice, snow, sand, mud, grass. Hov Pod hovercraft are safe, reliable, durable, easy and great fun to fly, designed to make leisure hovercraft ownership easy. Great for family outings, hunting and fishing trips - enjoy the unique sensation of traveling on a cushion of air, over any flat surface at speeds up to 45 mph. Great rental business opportunity, a number of dealer opportunities and rental franchise areas still available UK visitors can see the Hov Pod profiled on National TV in a program called "How Do They Do It?" - Red Drawf star (Kryton) Scrapheap Challenge presenter Robert Llewellyn - to be broadcasted Thursday January 17th on Channel 5, at 7.30 PM The New 2008 SPX Hov Pod model is available in wide choice of colours Independent report from Trade-a-Boat New Zealand Watch our videos on YouTube We sell more Hovercraft than any other manufacturer Detailed Price Enquiry ... See Video!

33. Welcome To XINVENTIONS.COM, Your Resource For Hovercraft Plans hovercrafts are a blast; If you have never ridden one you don t know what you are missing. When you ride the craft you ll have a floating sensation you ll http://www.xinventions.com/main/hovercrafts/home.htm

Contact Search Home Home ... Products Hovercrafts Small Hovercraft Large Hovercraft Information How They Work Fluid Dynamics Driving the Craft Hovercraft Game ... Hovercrafts Home Other Info F.A.Q. Contact Us Website Info Xinventions.com People just like you who built hovercrafts from xinventions. See the builders showcase with lots of pictures and comments of customers who built hovercrafts. Click here! Hovercrafts are a blast; If you have never ridden one you don't know what you are missing. When you ride the craft you'll have a floating sensation you'll never forget. They're great for science projects or just having some fun. Here are a couple hovercrafts that I have made. You can view pictures and various information on each hovercraft by clicking on the links below or left. Also, there is some brief information on the two hovercrafts below. Andy - founder NEW: Using fluid dynamics now you can solve for what size blower you might need for a certain sized craft. Click here for details Small hovercraft The first, smaller hovercraft was made from a vacuum cleaner engine and some plywood. It can lift up to 200 pounds. The bad thing about this hovercraft is that it has an extension cord running from it and it's quite small. It also is unable to run on water. However this is a great introductory craft and is great for a science fair project or just some fun!

34. How-to Build Your Own Wireless, Autonomous Hovercraft - Engadget So to be clear right off the bat, this is not the type of hovercraft that you might commute to work or class in, but rather a small RC version more suitable http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/how-to-build-your-own-wireless-autonomous-hov

@import url(http://www.engadget.com/media/style.css); Peek inside the world of Sundance Tip us on news! RSS Feed Category Feeds Engadget in: How-to build your own wireless, autonomous hovercraft Posted Dec 31st 2007 11:17PM by Evan Blass Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Transportation Wireless So to be clear right off the bat, this is not the type of hovercraft that you might commute to work or class in, but rather a small RC version more suitable for transporting babies or adorable pets. That being said, Instructables user bradpowers has posted step-by-step guide for the ambitious modder to build his or her very own remotely-controlled or autonomous 'craft, from constructing the frame to assembling the lift and propulsion systems to setting up the onboard PIC. Definitely not a project for the easily distracted, however, a successful build will surely make you the delight of neighborhood children for blocks in every direction. Check out a video of the little guy in action after the break. Tags: diy hovercraft how-to mods ... Comments Relevant Posts Nanoscope, the DIY ipod nano fatty A/V dock

35. Australianhovercraft.com - Home Page AUSTRALIAN hovercraft for cost effective custom built quiet oceangoing hovercraft and surface effect craft - take-off fully laden on natural surfaces - at http://www.australianhovercraft.com/

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36. Airlift Hovercraft - Home Airlift hovercraft for custom design and manufacture of recreational, commercial and rescue hovercraft. http://www.airlifthovercraft.com/

Home Products Services About Us Hovercraft Information ... Contact Us WELCOME TO AIRLIFT HOVERCRAFT Capturing the very essence of elegance, performance and simplicity in every design, Airlift Hovercraft is a pioneer in the development of small to medium sized hovercraft for the world stage. ... FIND OUT MORE ... AIRLIFT PRODUCTS HOVERFLYER: Enduring. Powerful. Thrill Seekers Dream FIND OUT MORE WILDFIRE: Functional. Protective. Extreme Weather Performer. Comfort, function and operational brilliance are key benefits of the Wildfire. This hovercraft is designed to excel in every condition, from the searing tropics to the extreme polar artic regions. Large doors give full loading access for commercial users and offer essential passenger protection... FIND OUT MORE PIONEER: Formidable. Comfortable. Maximum Passenger Pleaser. Robust and dynamic, the Pioneer hovercraft is a formidable sight in the water. Amphibious and designed to carry 22 passengers in comfort and with ease, this craft works predominantly in the tourist and joyride industries, although it has the power and longevity for more demanding conditions ... FIND OUT MORE RIVAC: Reliable. Tough. Low Maintenance Work Horse.

37. :: Griffon Hovercraft :: Griffon hovercraft Ltd produces the largest range of hovercraft available in the world today. http://www.griffonhovercraft.com/

Welcome to Griffon Hovercraft Griffon Hovercraft Ltd produces the largest range of amphibious, diesel-engined hovercraft available in the world today. Cruising at high speed, they operate best where it is difficult, if not impossible, for conventional boats to operate i.e. over land and shallow water, sand, mud, rocks, weeds, logs, debris and rapids. Griffons are currently in service with navy, army and paramilitary customers worldwide, and their commercial applications include passenger and tourist ferries, hydrographic and seismic surveys, crash rescue and firefighting, mobile clinics, oil rig and civil engineering support. With over 30 years experience, these durable and versatile craft are custom designed to provide a reliable, efficient and economical solution to specific operator needs. work LATEST NEWS

38. Hovertravel - Isle Of Wight Hovercraft Service Fares, timetables, general information and contact details, as well as prices for the hovercraft s parcel delivery service. http://www.hovertravel.co.uk/

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39. Dave's Hovercraft Site Stuff for sale!! hovercraft related accessories The hovercraft Cruising Club WebRing. Go to the homepage of the The hovercraft Cruising Club? http://www.hovermn.com/

Welcome hovermn.com! Last updated: 4/28/06 Hovercraft With no further ado, lets get started! Links - Manufacturers, Parts/Plans and Home Builder Sites Hoverins Where the fun's hiding! Ice House Custom designed drop axle ice house - Work in progress Stuff for sale!! Hovercraft related accessories View Guestbook Sign Guestbook Get a FREE guestbook here! This site is a member of the The Hovercraft Cruising Club WebRing Go to the homepage of the The Hovercraft Cruising Club Previous Site Next Site List Sites ... SiteRing by Bravenet.com

40. Hovercraft.html A page dedicated to Mellotron samples for soundcard and sampler users. http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/aphex/113/

web hosting domain names photo sharing Welcome to J. P. Hovercraft's Mellotron Sample Page J. P. leers from the command center of Hovercraft Studio , the mighty Atari STe . OK, some work gets done on the PC in the living room. August 1, 2005 - I'M BACK!!!! I've been locked out of this page for over 5 years now, but today I found my username and password in an old email. So let's celebrate by adding a link to my latest sample page for the Peavey SP . Lots of free samples to download if you're an SP/SP+ user. Drop in, have a look, download some samples, kick my counter up. There will be a News and Links section coming soon ... and maybe some more samples. IT'S BACK! Yes, this page disappeared for a while, replaced, due to a screw-up at Fortune City, by a (shudder...) SPICE GIRLS PAGE!!! Anyway, the Mellotron samples have returned. The delay was due to the failure of my Zip drive. With it down, my sample library was not accessable. That has now been remedied. We now return you to the old page. BTW, my old counter was reading -over- 25,000 hits

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