On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:17:57 -0700 (PDT), Loogypicker
wrote:

Hell, I'll tell you anyway. *My neighbor is a hover craft freakazoid
and has built a bunch of them over the years. *:)

I built a hovercraft when I lived in Fl. Universal Hovercraft design.

They are interesting machines.

Probably the neatest one he ever built was actually very small - one
person, three engines and he used two inner tubes from a large tractor
tire for the skirts. The engines were Chinese knockoff's of the
popular Honda 6 hp DOHC grass mower engines.

Thing was cool as heck.

On Jun 21, 11:37*am, Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:17:57 -0700 (PDT), Loogypicker

wrote:
Hell, I'll tell you anyway. *My neighbor is a hover craft freakazoid
and has built a bunch of them over the years. *:)

I built a hovercraft when I lived in Fl. Universal Hovercraft design.

They are interesting machines.

Probably the neatest one he ever built was actually very small - one
person, three engines and he used two inner tubes from a large tractor
tire for the skirts. The engines were Chinese knockoff's of the
popular Honda 6 hp DOHC grass mower engines.

Thing was cool as heck.

Some of the Universal Hovercraft models use a vertical shaft lawnmower
enginer (like a 5hp Briggs) for the lift fan, and then usually a twin
two smoke like a snowmobile engine for the thrust. That's what the
older model that I built had. I bought skirt material from UH.