Leafblower Hovercraft.

1. SarahS
   May 20th, 2007 at 7:54 am

   Mythbusters did this before

2. quinnn
   May 20th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

   yes they did. but didn't they required 3 leaf blowers to get jayme off the ground?

3. kyle
   May 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

   Ive never trusted mythbusters, especially since they've had episodes where they go back and prove themselves wrong. A kid in my 6th grade science class did this for a project

4. MrPumpernickel
   May 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

   quinnn, as far as I remember they got proof of concept with only one leafblower on a construction very similar to the one in the video. Then they did however make two hovercrafts, Adam made a big one powered by three leafblowers (which also had to lift his rather heavy construction) and Jamie a smaller surfboard one powered by two leafblowers (one for lift, one for travel).

5. Elana
   May 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

   he didn't even get lifted off of the ground

6. Jacki
   May 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

   I've been on one of those things a summer ago while volunteering for a summer camp haha. The heavier the sitter, the more leaf blowers required.

   It technically doesn't hover since it touches the ground at times but its difficult to have a perfect distribution of the weight.

7. Lasse
   May 21st, 2007 at 2:01 am

   The inventor reminds me of Emmet Brown.

8. Erik
   May 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 pm

   Too bad it's not wireless. =(

9. John88
   November 29th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

   Nice blog. I made a simple hovercraft for my 4 year old son this weekend with plywood a leaf blower and shower curtain. He learned about air pressure. Cool stuff! We found a fun site with neat science experiments like simple hovercraft directions. I will put the link below for anyone interested.

   http://weirdsciencekids.com/FunExperiments.html

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