Hovercraft

Lego’s New Back to the Future DeLorean Lets You Build Versions From All Three Movies

The 1,872-piece set also includes plutonium and a hoverboard, of course.

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Mar 17

Boats, Ranked

A careful review of the pros and cons of various watercraft.

Tech News Whitney Kimball Oct 1

Save on Bridge Tolls With an Inflatable Ferry Strong Enough to Support a Car

Are you outraged at companies charging you to cross the bridge they spent millions of dollars building? The nerve of the!. The next time your trip from point A to point B involves a river crossing, just toss one of these $10,000 inflatable car ferries in your trunk and save yourself a few bucks. The…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 23

Now This Is How You Make an Entrance at the Beach

This image shows the U.S.. Navy’s Landing Craft Air Cushion 60 vehicle — a special class of hovercraft — arriving at Virginia Beach on May 29th for the 2015 Patriotic Festival. Coolest way to turn up to the beach? [U.S. Navy] Image by U.S. Navy

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 2

A Beach Stormer That Flies Like an Air Hockey Puck

There’s no guarantee that the USMC’s UHAC next-generation landing craft will ever see the light of day. Until that actually happens, the US military will continue to rely on these nearly unstoppable ship-to-shore hovercrafts. https://gizmodo.com/this-tank-thinks-its-a-beach-storming-hovercraft-1607353122 The Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) is a 87 foot long, 47 foot wide hovercraft employed by both the US…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 1

Watch a heroic father-son hovercraft crew rescue deer stranded on ice

Now this video should warm you up during those cold winter days. A father and son in Minnesota took out their (multiple) hovercrafts in order to save a few stranded, wobbly deer who couldn’t get their way back off the ice. James Nolastname saw a Facebook post about a few deer stuck out on the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 14

Huge Russian Hovercraft Interrupts Beachgoers in Spectacular Fashion

Nothing says “relaxing day at the beach” like sand, surf, sunscreen, and the sudden arrival of the world’s largest militarized hovercraft, amirite? The footage shows one of Russia’s colossal Zubr-class landing crafts making landfall about as casually as a 550-ton military hovercraft can do such a thing, which is to say: not casually at all.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 22

Giant Military Hovercraft Lands on Crowded Beach Because Russia

In the most recent bit of Russian bizarreness, a 550-ton military hovercraft carrying sophisticated weaponry casually pulled up onto a crowded, seemingly public beach. Because, apparently, Russia wants to become Europe’s own personal prison planet. These giant Zubr vessels are purportedly the largest in their class (which consists of the world’s largest hovercrafts) and—when fully…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 21

That time the Russians designed a hovercraft so insane we had no clue what the hell it was

In the first spy photographs, an enormous beast reared up out of the Caspian Sea, a metal monster studded with jet engines and spewing a mighty spray of water behind it. The United States called it the Caspian Sea Monster, and that wasn’t far from the truth. In the mid-1960s, the Soviets were testing something…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Feb 25

If I Can’t Have a DeLorean Time Machine, I’d Totally Take This DeLorean Hovercraft Instead

I’ve grown up. I’ve faced reality. I now know that getting a DeLorean time machine like in Back to the Future isn’t going to happen any time soon. I think I’m okay with it. I’d definitely be okay with it if I could replace the DeLorean-sized hole in my heart with this awesome DeLorean Hovercraft.…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 16

How You Make a Hovercraft An Object Of Lust

Hovercrafts have the distinct advantage of being just as comfortable on water as they are on land, but usually at the cost of a pretty ugly and utilitarian design. So the engineers at Mercier-Jones decided to take a crack at designing a hovercraft that was as lustworthy as a sports car, and from the looks…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 1

1960s Hover Scooter: When Real Men Strode Atop Deadly Spinning Fan Blades

Even though it combined all the benefits of riding a scooter with the ability to easily transition between land and water, for some reason the Hover Scooter never went mainstream. Maybe it had something to do with that giant unprotected ducted fan up front? In addition to gently carrying you across mostly flat surfaces, the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 16

Man Gets Decapitated While Testing His DIY Hovercraft

Alastair Senior, a 40-year-old man from New Zealand, was killed in gruesome fashion—decapitation—on a hovercraft test drive. Senior had been building his own hovercraft and was about to ride it for the first time when things got awry. It’s a terribly sad story. Senior used DIY instructions he got from the internet to build his…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 4

A Blizzard of Awesome Gifts for Powder Hounds

One of the best things about Winter is a fresh blanket of pristine snow. And the gear that helps you ride down it. Here are some gifts for the powderhounds in your life. 1. Helmet/Sport Cameras: There are two cameras that are top of the line when it comes to capturing the essence of your…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 24

For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition

Attention all nutters! Now you can buy your very own 179-foot Excelsior-class military assault hovercraft for just $69 million, fully armed, and with plenty of space to carry 140 rangers and three T-80 heavy soviet tanks. She’s such a beauty: An outstanding opportunity for the right government agency to obtain a vessel which normally takes…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 23

This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer

Dennis Schaller was a rocket engine mechanic in the Air Force and an electrical engineer on the Apollo missions. So, it’s not surprising that he ended up with this thing after 20 years of working on a travel trailer. Click to view “Most people think it’s a spaceship,” Schaller said of his silver creation that…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 31

Steamboat Willy Human-Powered Hovercraft Crosses the Thames

This pedal-powered hovercraft, built by a flight group at the University of London, is constructed out of the absolute lightest materials possible (carbon fiber, glass cloth, styrofoam) to make it floaty enough to cross the Thames. And it does! It’s a pretty impressive little bit of engineering, even if steering looks super awkward and clumsy.…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 15

Hover-Q Billed as the World’s Smallest IR Hovercraft

I don’t know whether or not the “world’s smallest” title is truly valid, but the Hover-Q indoor infrared controlled hovercraft is definitely small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. The flexible skirt lift system can be inflated in a second, it has forward, right and left control, and the IR control doubles…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 16

Make Your Own R/C Hovercraft Out of Old Junk

My guess is that most of the guys out there would love their own R/C hovercraft, but the bottom line is that not everyone can afford a fancy commercial version. Well, if you have some junk lying around the house, some time on your hands, and you don’t mind a hovercraft that is butt friggin’…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 18

Plasma-Powered Hovercraft Patent

The patent shown is for an aircraft to be powered off the ground using a plasma technology. Subrata Roy, a University of Florida aerospace engineer, proposes the existing technique of passing a magnetic wave through a conducting fluid can produce a force strong enough to lift an aircraft off the ground. Granted, the example in…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 9

Hovercraft

Lego’s New Back to the Future DeLorean Lets You Build Versions From All Three Movies

Boats, Ranked

Save on Bridge Tolls With an Inflatable Ferry Strong Enough to Support a Car

Now This Is How You Make an Entrance at the Beach

A Beach Stormer That Flies Like an Air Hockey Puck

Watch a heroic father-son hovercraft crew rescue deer stranded on ice

Huge Russian Hovercraft Interrupts Beachgoers in Spectacular Fashion

Giant Military Hovercraft Lands on Crowded Beach Because Russia

That time the Russians designed a hovercraft so insane we had no clue what the hell it was

If I Can’t Have a DeLorean Time Machine, I’d Totally Take This DeLorean Hovercraft Instead

How You Make a Hovercraft An Object Of Lust

1960s Hover Scooter: When Real Men Strode Atop Deadly Spinning Fan Blades

Man Gets Decapitated While Testing His DIY Hovercraft

A Blizzard of Awesome Gifts for Powder Hounds

For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition

This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer

Steamboat Willy Human-Powered Hovercraft Crosses the Thames

Hover-Q Billed as the World’s Smallest IR Hovercraft

Make Your Own R/C Hovercraft Out of Old Junk

Plasma-Powered Hovercraft Patent

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