On Oct 21, 3:55*am, speedevil wrote:
I was browsing my favourite chinese junk site, and came acrosshttp://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15230

Does anyone see any real obstacles to this?


If you're thinking that its going to "fly", I have two words "Moller
skycar". He used 8 Mazda engines. No soap. Not convinced? How 'bout
"Avro Skycar," or whatever they called it. It used two jet engines.
Couldn't clear an 8-foot fence.

Now if all you want to do is stand on top of a surfboard-style
hovercraft, I'd suggest the following:

1 gas-powered leaf blower (31cc is plenty of power)
1 3ft dia. section of 3/4" plywood.
1 section of 6mil polyethylene sheet big enough to cover one side of
the plywood and wrap partially around the other
1 staple gun loaded with 3/8" staples
1 roll of duct tape

To build:
cut out the plywood deck
cut a hole in the deck just big enough to fit the nozzle of the leaf
blower into
cover one side of the deck in plastic, wrap the edges around the other
side, staple in place
cut 6 2"-holes in the plastic, spaced 60 degrees apart, approx.1/2 the
radius of the deck from the edge of the deck
turn the deck over, duct tape the plastic edges to the deck and maybe
staple the tape down too
insert the blower nozzle into the hole
don't spend more than 1 hour building this. If you do, you've done it
wrong.

To fly:
start the blower and set to full power
jump on
try not to kill 'urself

Congratulations!
You've just used cheap junk to achieve the same result your $30,000
250-motor hoverboard would have. Now take the $29,940 that you saved
and go buy a nice used Ercoupe or something.

This will also work using an electric blower and a long extention
cord. Wanna guess how I know???

Harry Frey
mayhem ensues