On the banks of Lac Bellevue in Alberta, Canada, Robert Tymofichuk approached two women on lawn chairs. He had an unusual question. Did they mind if he launched his hovercraft nearby? After 1,800 ...

These days, it’s pretty cheap and easy to build your own little RC hovercraft. [ValRC] demonstrates just that with a hovercraft build that is surprisingly nimble, and fast to boot. The build started ...

From its shipyard just past the floodwall in New Orleans East, Textron Systems designs, builds and tests the latest in hovercraft technology. Workers there take in 40-foot-long sheets of raw aluminum, ...

Motion, speed, velocity and gravity. They're all physics concepts that some Tulsa area students are more familiar with thanks to an unusual class project. Students at Union Intermediate High School ...

Discover the fascinating journey of building a Micro Hovercraft from scratch in this hands-on DIY engineering project. Watch as a Japanese inventor pieces together a custom hovercraft, using electric ...

From gliding around on a hovercraft to building their own hot-air balloons, the kids of the Peak Adventure Club learned Sunday afternoon that science can be taken outside of the classroom. Nearly 50 ...

Hovercraft never really caught on as regular transportation, but they are very cool. The Saunders-Roe SR.N1 was the very first practical example of the type, and served as a research vehicle to ...