I think it'd be great if these plans were part of the patreon perks! I'm not sure if I have the time to build any but if I could take a look at all of them out of curiosity it would make me more likely to join the patreon
The whole other famous youtuber just lurking in the background thing comes across as creepy. Normally its just done in the hope of sharing subscribers or business trip tax dodge.
When I was a teenager my dad bought a hovercraft that was 13ft long. It was an old fan boat that had been repurposed into a large hovercraft. The thing was a beast and fun to drive around. We brought it out on a lake several times. Good memories.
Very cool. I only rode a hovercraft once, but that was one of the massive English Channel Hoverspeed ferries from Calais to Dover, in the early nineties, when my parents and me went to Britain for vacation. Good memories there too, I was over the moon getting to ride that even once as a kid! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverspeed
Your dad is a legend. He needs to be in more videos. Such dad energy, clearly an absolute 1st class chap. Also DIY perks!!! Best collaboration on UA-cam. Incredible scenes.
As a man about the same age as your dad, I remember the hovercraft plans that they used to sell in the back of comic books and kids magazines. The expression on his face truly tells that story. I have driven 180 miles per hour, flown airplanes, repelled out of helicopters and other cool stuff; but I known I would grin ears wide on that DIY hovercraft!
I love it! I grew up drooling over the hovercraft plans advertised in the back of Boy's Life magazine. I bought them and built one, but the 1980's requirement of using a vacuum cleaner motor plugged into a wall outlet made me dream of making a cordless one.
Takes me back to my year 11 at high school days. Was doing a project on hovercrafts for physics. I made a 8x4 ft hovercraft from 3mm plywood. I spent a lot of time on the plenum chamber design. I used a 2 stroke lawnmower motor for the lift motor. Awesome build mate.
Christopher Cockerell will be smiling down. I’m old enough to remember the mighty SRN4 Super 4s and the ill-fated French N500. With an east wind, you could hear them coming from Calais/Boulogne long before seeing them. Happy memories of visiting my great aunt in 70s Dover. Keep up the good work.
Corner thrusters will help to keep the vehicle on track, and will also help to compensate for terrain that isn't completely level. Also some sturdy fan guards and corner bumpers will help to protect the vehicle and nearby personnel. Nicely done job of "hot gluing your way to a better tomorrow." (Yes, you can use that if you like, with attribution) :)
The small racing hovercraft also use rudders, but at least some of the steering comes from the driver shifting their weight from side to side. That may give you a little more control.
I saw where someone had great success with a full under bag setup with strategic silver dollar sized holes. Appeared to have better lift with similar motors. Of course, comparing apples and oranges, but, also easy to try! I'm like your dad with the "always wanted to build a hovercraft" dream.
I like that I am noticing content creators that started with rc are slowly just making vehicles they can get in. No complaints because it's cool, let's be real
for steering you can also put ducted fans on the front sides to push it angled. it's the same assisted steering method the royal canadian coastguard uses on their hovercraft
Great job! When I was much younger I wanted to build a hovercraft but at that time with internal combustion engines the cost was way too high. Keep up the good work and tweak the machine to get it even better.
Amazing project! I think the only thing that it really needs is directional thrust, meaning you steer by changing the direction of the motors rather than moving the rudders.
Good work! I've built a few basic disc hovercrafts out of a vacuum cleaner (indoor, extension cabled) and a leaf blower (gas-powered, outdoor) That type is fun for kids and you kind of play a giant game of air hockey pushing them across tennis courts and that sort of area. Yours is much more of a vehicle and seems to have good lift. Way to go.
That's really cool that your dad helped you build this. He sure got a kick out of driving it! I hope you did make him one for Christmas. It would be funny to race them. I'm actually quite surprised that those trash bags held up to that. Maybe you guys have better ones in the UK or maybe those are the same as the contractor bags we have here. I've never actual bought any of those before so I don't know. I want to buy some eventually because I saw a guy build an entire bushcraft bed out of them and some logs, which seemed cool.
Great build! I love the duct tape engineering! And Thanks for not just 3D printing everything! and actually saying how it’s faster just making it yourself! I still want a printer though lol I highly suggest a gyro it makes hovercraft builds so much easier to fly
Nice one! Rip stop kite fabric for the skirt worked for my rc one, didn’t take too long to make a finger skirt. 5 blade fan from a scimitar 1500 does the lifting.
What fun, i built an r/c one and as you have found out they are almost impossible to steer and seem to love goin sideways , but boy are they fun on snow.
It would be cool to see a hovercraft / car (or bike) hybrid. Use the fans and skirt to reduce the friction of the wheels when cruising, and drop down onto the wheels for sharper turns.
You need differential thrust for the edfs so that you can ride on slanted surfaces. If the surface is slanted, power down half of the craft and power up the other half to tilt the craft for more straight traveling.
Must be great growing up in the age of social channels and more advanced/available tech, building projects with friends and family and, learning whilst having such a laugh! You have my sub and bell! Looking forward to seeing more. 👍
Nice start to a SEV. A friend of mine use to design hovercrafts or surface effect vehicles to be more correct. Barry warned me to keep the cushion pressure below 10 lbs per square foot that would be about 50 kg per square meter. Oh Berry designed the Sevtech hovercrafts about 30 odd years ago... the bag skirt that he uses is more stable then the finger skirt developed in Britain that you are likely familiar with.
If you moved the thrust props to the centre of the craft and installed them in ducts, this would give a much better point from which to use them with reversible, differential thrust to instantly stop, go backwards, and have yaw control. The simple way would just be to make a throttle that lets the props spin backwards to blow air toward the front for stopping, and reversing thrust, and or producing yaw. The tricky way, is to take a page out of the helicopter rotor swash plate, and tilting blades page to allow more control. The rudders would still help provide stability in forward flight, and allow for fine yaw control at faster speeds. This is very cool.
Great video and love your proff of concept starting off with a small model 👌 and working out the bugs before you let dad have a go on your machine 😀. Always room for improvement and and watching your video provides lots of inspiration for all of us dreamers. Mabe one powerplant and flexible cable could be used for lifting and steering. And honeycomb cardboard, coated for the deck, and 2 liter soda bottles cut in half to form the doughnut 🍩. Just a few thoughts on a build, with some borrowed ideas from a helicopter 🚁. Keep up the good work and good luck 👍
Great video! Looks like you all had ton of fun building and riding it together. I wonder if you could use thrust vectoring with your dual prop setup? Do you know about how much thrust they each can produce?
Differential thrust*. But yes, this. Would have been easier to just use a rc transmitter and receiver to control it. Then rudder and differential could just be tied together on the TX.
Here's the model hovercraft plans you can buy and support me through. 😀Thanks for watching! store.projectair.co.uk/products/rc-hovercraft
Awesome! Hey, is your hot glue gun powered by battery? Which one is it? Mine from Bosch is pretty crappy. It's more for warm glue not hot...
I think it'd be great if these plans were part of the patreon perks! I'm not sure if I have the time to build any but if I could take a look at all of them out of curiosity it would make me more likely to join the patreon
@@SutherlandBoswell thanks for the suggestion, I think I’ll do that!
@@johnnyrocket3200 mine is an amtech one which has a detachable charger
@@Project-Air Why are people disliking this? It's really cool and interesting!
ProjectAir + DIY Perks = Dream Team. Brilliant work!
Tom Stanton as a bonus would be awesome.
@@gerryfalke like in the Damm Buster Video, a couple of years back?
@@Craftlngo exactly
The whole other famous youtuber just lurking in the background thing comes across as creepy. Normally its just done in the hope of sharing subscribers or business trip tax dodge.
Came here for this comment!
The best thing about everything being hot glued together is that nothing ever breaks it just fall off 😂
Just like old cartoons
Haha, I'm rebuilding my rc seaplane with polyurethane glue for the same reason.
Except if it breaks after it goes flying off
This is true 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Hot glue is strong when used right
When I was a teenager my dad bought a hovercraft that was 13ft long. It was an old fan boat that had been repurposed into a large hovercraft. The thing was a beast and fun to drive around. We brought it out on a lake several times. Good memories.
Very cool. I only rode a hovercraft once, but that was one of the massive English Channel Hoverspeed ferries from Calais to Dover, in the early nineties, when my parents and me went to Britain for vacation. Good memories there too, I was over the moon getting to ride that even once as a kid!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverspeed
Your dad is a legend. He needs to be in more videos. Such dad energy, clearly an absolute 1st class chap. Also DIY perks!!! Best collaboration on UA-cam. Incredible scenes.
As a man about the same age as your dad, I remember the hovercraft plans that they used to sell in the back of comic books and kids magazines. The expression on his face truly tells that story. I have driven 180 miles per hour, flown airplanes, repelled out of helicopters and other cool stuff; but I known I would grin ears wide on that DIY hovercraft!
Your dad shouting "BANG!" was a classic dad move 😂
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Brilliant as always👍!! We are sooooo proud to partner with you, James!
Let’s do it again!
@@Project-Air Terrific! 🥳🥳
@@Project-Air Can you lend me a trillion billion Dollars? I need to fuck some shit up!
@@PCBWay I think it’s great you guys help out and support project air! Great stuff 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I love it! I grew up drooling over the hovercraft plans advertised in the back of Boy's Life magazine. I bought them and built one, but the 1980's requirement of using a vacuum cleaner motor plugged into a wall outlet made me dream of making a cordless one.
Gas-powered blowers work great. I assume the battery-powered ones would also be good.
This video inspired me to build my own RC hovercraft and I have to say they are by far the coolest vehicle
except maybe ekranoplans
Takes me back to my year 11 at high school days. Was doing a project on hovercrafts for physics. I made a 8x4 ft hovercraft from 3mm plywood. I spent a lot of time on the plenum chamber design. I used a 2 stroke lawnmower motor for the lift motor. Awesome build mate.
wow my school would probably just make me write an essay
Having a dad looks so fun! This is the part that got me. 🥰
I'd love to see more of this. Maybe get a sponsor and create a bigger one which has more stability so you can sit more comfortable
I had done a lot of stuff with hovercrafts and have learned that using impellers for the plenum are better as they generate far more static pressure.
What is this trend of youtube RC makers colabbing to make ride on vehicles?? First RCTestflight and Think Flight, now you guys. It's awesome!
Your dad has only spoken a few sentences, but I already really like him
Christopher Cockerell will be smiling down. I’m old enough to remember the mighty SRN4 Super 4s and the ill-fated French N500. With an east wind, you could hear them coming from Calais/Boulogne long before seeing them. Happy memories of visiting my great aunt in 70s Dover. Keep up the good work.
Another brilliant colab with DIY Perks done and dusted. Am I the only one now desperately awaiting another colab with Tim Station?
Corner thrusters will help to keep the vehicle on track, and will also help to compensate for terrain that isn't completely level. Also some sturdy fan guards and corner bumpers will help to protect the vehicle and nearby personnel. Nicely done job of "hot gluing your way to a better tomorrow." (Yes, you can use that if you like, with attribution) :)
The small racing hovercraft also use rudders, but at least some of the steering comes from the driver shifting their weight from side to side. That may give you a little more control.
I saw where someone had great success with a full under bag setup with strategic silver dollar sized holes. Appeared to have better lift with similar motors. Of course, comparing apples and oranges, but, also easy to try!
I'm like your dad with the "always wanted to build a hovercraft" dream.
I like that I am noticing content creators that started with rc are slowly just making vehicles they can get in. No complaints because it's cool, let's be real
Those throttles are BEAUTIFUL
Maybe centrifugal blowers would work better to create the pressure underneath? Although they are probably heavier. Awesome work!
I always love it when James says "What's the worst that could happen?" Great build.
Great proof of concept model
I used to daydream about making this while on a bus in middle-school 15+ years ago, glad to see you making my dreams come true 😁
i really like the way you solve problems so quickly and fix it fast
Awesome video. Id love to see another video trying to go as fast as possible with beefed up rear motors
Absolutely brilliant!! Well done, be proud of yourself.👊🏻😎
This is AWESOME!
I recommend building one!
@@Project-Air This is very tempting if I can think of a spin on your idea for originality
That is amazing how little power was needed to get it to work so well and RC plane parts even though it broke quite a bit
This chap sounds exactly like ‘diy perks’. Well spoken and we’ll explained. Well done.
My dad has always wanted one of these finally he can have one!
That's so cool, amazing work!
Great video! And nice Park City sweatshirt. Thats where I grew up!
No way! Didn’t realise that but knew you were a Utah resident. Visited last summer and it was great!
for steering you can also put ducted fans on the front sides to push it angled. it's the same assisted steering method the royal canadian coastguard uses on their hovercraft
Great job! When I was much younger I wanted to build a hovercraft but at that time with internal combustion engines the cost was way too high. Keep up the good work and tweak the machine to get it even better.
Fantastic! Love it James and Co!
This guy deserves more subs 😍😍
Your dad is AWESOME. I too had a really wonderful father. We are lucky people. Damn lucky.
Awesome video!
Hovercrafts while amazing are finicky and tricky beast but if mastered are insanely rewarding
Man you make things that might become revolutionary to the world I’m not joking at all
Amazing project! I think the only thing that it really needs is directional thrust, meaning you steer by changing the direction of the motors rather than moving the rudders.
Good work!
I've built a few basic disc hovercrafts out of a vacuum cleaner (indoor, extension cabled) and a leaf blower (gas-powered, outdoor)
That type is fun for kids and you kind of play a giant game of air hockey pushing them across tennis courts and that sort of area.
Yours is much more of a vehicle and seems to have good lift. Way to go.
Fantastic work, James! Amazing hovercraft!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
ok that was perfect timing for refreshing youtube main page
Your videos are so awesome!!
They are so entertaining and fun to watch!
It also teaches me things!
That's really cool that your dad helped you build this. He sure got a kick out of driving it! I hope you did make him one for Christmas. It would be funny to race them.
I'm actually quite surprised that those trash bags held up to that. Maybe you guys have better ones in the UK or maybe those are the same as the contractor bags we have here. I've never actual bought any of those before so I don't know. I want to buy some eventually because I saw a guy build an entire bushcraft bed out of them and some logs, which seemed cool.
Bro you are so underrated!!!
Brilliant as always!!
Extremely entertaining "big you-tuber style" well edited videos.
Thank you, it was a great watch:)
You have amazed me with your super building skills! keep up the good work.
This video demonstrates (over and over) the benefit of weak attachment points. Parts fall off, but they don't break.
I actually watched the ad because I hadn’t seen it before and it was relevant ish to the video and it’s something I’m interested in
lol your dad is awesome!
This is gonna be more amazing if you make this a series. About making some vehicles from scratch
That was brilliant man .... thank you
Incredible, possibly needs a little more development to be a 'practical means of transport', but Christopher Cockerell would be proud.
DIY Perks is life.
where do u put the holes on a donut skirt
Really cool fun project. Would love to see a more refined version of this in the future
Great build! I love the duct tape engineering! And Thanks for not just 3D printing everything! and actually saying how it’s faster just making it yourself! I still want a printer though lol I highly suggest a gyro it makes hovercraft builds so much easier to fly
This is fantastic! I've always wanted a hovercraft.
this is so impressive
You did my suggestion. Nice.
really cool project!
Nice one!
Rip stop kite fabric for the skirt worked for my rc one, didn’t take too long to make a finger skirt.
5 blade fan from a scimitar 1500 does the lifting.
@user-yp8by8yu4n This is a poor effort at scamming. 2/10
What fun, i built an r/c one and as you have found out they are almost impossible to steer and seem to love goin sideways , but boy are they fun on snow.
It would be cool to see a hovercraft / car (or bike) hybrid. Use the fans and skirt to reduce the friction of the wheels when cruising, and drop down onto the wheels for sharper turns.
A wonderful invention. You are very well. I follow you from Algeria
The youtubers are all making boats.
Its like they are competing content against each other.
No complaints, its all brilliant material to watch.
Love your vids
I did not expect the mark Rober tune to start 😳 nice work though. 👍
You need differential thrust for the edfs so that you can ride on slanted surfaces. If the surface is slanted, power down half of the craft and power up the other half to tilt the craft for more straight traveling.
Very nice work.
Li-ion and brushless motor make almost anything possible!
Amazing video bro
This is so cool!
Must be great growing up in the age of social channels and more advanced/available tech, building projects with friends and family and, learning whilst having such a laugh! You have my sub and bell! Looking forward to seeing more. 👍
That's crazy ! I like this !!!!!
Nice start to a SEV. A friend of mine use to design hovercrafts or surface effect vehicles to be more correct.
Barry warned me to keep the cushion pressure below 10 lbs per square foot that would be about 50 kg per square meter.
Oh Berry designed the Sevtech hovercrafts about 30 odd years ago... the bag skirt that he uses is more stable then the finger skirt developed in Britain that you are likely familiar with.
I love hovercraft. I build an RC one from scratch it did not work well but it was fun.
pretty cool, imagine it could go even fast if you just installed 2 more propellers!
I'm really amazed at your designs - they're mostly capable and work really well! keep up the effort :)
I’m trying to make one, for my school project with my friend but I don’t know what motor you used at the back
awesome project!
If you moved the thrust props to the centre of the craft and installed them in ducts, this would give a much better point from which to use them with reversible, differential thrust to instantly stop, go backwards, and have yaw control. The simple way would just be to make a throttle that lets the props spin backwards to blow air toward the front for stopping, and reversing thrust, and or producing yaw. The tricky way, is to take a page out of the helicopter rotor swash plate, and tilting blades page to allow more control. The rudders would still help provide stability in forward flight, and allow for fine yaw control at faster speeds. This is very cool.
Love this bro, super cool 👌
Such a fun project. Really neat seeing how they're made, I might have to try building a small scale RC one at some point.
That's great I am jealous
Well I'm impressed 😁
This is fabulous 🤞☝️
diferencial thrust XD nice proyect
i get so happy when i see a new upload here c:
I love you're videos.
Dream Channel ♥️
How did u you got such knowledge of making things and its electronics
Please lets us know we are also interested in such projects 😊
Nice
Great video and love your proff of concept starting off with a small model 👌 and working out the bugs before you let dad have a go on your machine 😀. Always room for improvement and and watching your video provides lots of inspiration for all of us dreamers. Mabe one powerplant and flexible cable could be used for lifting and steering. And honeycomb cardboard, coated for the deck, and 2 liter soda bottles cut in half to form the doughnut 🍩. Just a few thoughts on a build, with some borrowed ideas from a helicopter 🚁. Keep up the good work and good luck 👍
Definitely make that 1st test model a toy, it’d be wildly popular and a hit with the kids (even adults). Lots of money too.
Great video! Looks like you all had ton of fun building and riding it together. I wonder if you could use thrust vectoring with your dual prop setup? Do you know about how much thrust they each can produce?
Differential thrust*. But yes, this. Would have been easier to just use a rc transmitter and receiver to control it. Then rudder and differential could just be tied together on the TX.