On May 13, 8:20*pm, DK wrote:
wrote:
On May 12, 7:35 pm, John H. wrote:
...of course, it wasn't in the Chesapeake, but beggars can't be choosy.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...iverPatrol.jpg

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John *H*

She's a beaut! I actually built a two man hovercraft, belonged to a
local hovercraft club. I bought the plans from a guy in Illinois.
Universal Hovercraft. I believe the guy's name was Windt, or something
similar. Now he's building this hybrid thing that actually flies low
over the water! A lot of people don't understand the hovercraft, they
think it rides on the blown up skirt. The skirt is actually just a
gasket to keep the air under the craft, and in perfect trim, the skirt
actually is about a half inch above the water/ground. They work well
where the land to water transition isn't steep. I had a tilt flat bed
trailer, and loved to show up at a pond somewhere, start the lift
motor up, and the craft would just slide right off the trailer! I
built the UH-14p.

http://www.hovercraft.com/content/in...ain_page=index

Not a bad price, either - less than $3000. *What else do you have to buy
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I didn't buy the kit, just the plans. I bought a couple of sheaves and
such off of him, the lift fan, and the prop, basically specialty items
like that. I built the ducts and things myself, bought my own motor,
etc. The steering mechanism was all home built. I bought the material
for the skirt from him, and sewed it on an old sewing machine. It was
a fun project, and fun to run!