hovercraft

Hovercrafts are the platypus of the transportation world, borrowing parts and principles from wildly divergent sources and mashing them together into something that physically functions but rarely looks very attractive. Vonmercier seems to be trying to change all that with a new electric hovercraft design that heavily embraces the world of sleeky, sexy sportscars. Say hello to the Vonmercier Arosa EV hovercraft. Electric hovercrafts aren’t that complicated, in theory. Anyone with a sheet of…

An Indian entrepreneur in Coimbatore claims to have designed India's first indigenous hovercraft capable of traversing both land and water.The hovercraft boasts an impressive speed capability, capable of reaching 100 kmph on road surfaces and 80 kmph on water…

A handful of students levitated around the Saskatchewan Polytechnic gymnasium in Saskatoon earlier this week, lifted by the air power created by cordless leaf blowers.The post-secondary school's first-year mechanical engineering technologists spent about a month building hovercraft, with the goal of testing their speed and balance under different design parameters and taking an investigative approach to creating and constructing."We were kind of skeptical about how it would work," said student Carter Pierce, a few moments…