Wired Science

If you decide to build a UFO yourself, you'll need: eye protection, a half sheet of plywood, a black marker, a jigsaw, a sander, a piece of tarp larger than the plywood, a stapler, string, duct tape, a circular container lid about six inches in diameter, a smaller round object to use for tracing, scissors, and some screws.

Nowhere does it say I NEED A LEAF BLOWER!!!

Most people figure that out for themselves before they build the rest.

WHERE R THE PICTURES?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

pictures would help a lot plz

I thought that was a really neat thing to show people. Now,will the same structure work with 6 blowers, with 3 having port trajectory alteration capability (jet wash directional control like a harrier to control 3 axis of directional control?)In short, can we Nascar this buggy with a standard H pattern shifter, Variac, and nozzle control for racing? Remember winter is coming and some of us dont own snowmobiles but we do own snow blowers and will need some racing to hold us over until daytona!

"Why didn't you use two leaf blowers for more upward thrust?"

"Why didn't you use two leaf blowers instead of one and why didn't you use one to thrust the hovercraft forward?"

the pictures are with the how to video

Earlier I asked about finding portion on home-made UFO. Well, I found it. Also asked about purchasing instructions, in print form, hoping that that would not skimp on details, like thickness of plywood (thickness adds weight), and power of leaf blower*, because it is hard to believe that any of them create enough thrust to lift UFO plus payload/pilot.
* can leaf blower be electric, or gasoline-powered?
Does Wired Science have other home-built projects, for kids and adults?

General Comment: I'm excited to have come upon Wired Science.
It must have been the TV scheduling that had me miss it.
Can viewers/readers get questions answered? Like how to choose (not too expensive) digital camcorder, that has excellent freeze frame feature, w/o blur and distortion, to allow to print or store individual images, from still or moving subject, for a 'poor man's microfiche'. Camcorder, rather than still camera, or still mode, because there is so much to be recorded, (and it is thought that camcorder will do it faster), for archival-type keepsakes, of letters, articles, graphics, photos, regular moving video recording---all to be readable on monitor first, to help select what's to be printed/stored, as individual stills, when requested.

Saw the segment on PBS, and it was awesome. First thing I thought of was, if I use a gas blower my kids will have the coolest sled in the neighborhood this winter. Hmmm, I wonder if a second blower will have enough thrust to get them back up the hill( by them I mean me ).
Thanks for the show.

just a reminder if yoy do NASCAR it up, hovercraft still require a VERY wide space in which to execute a "turn"... enjoy ! cheers !...

This sounds like a great Cub Scout project.

I'll be building this with my Cub Scout den at our next meeting. Last night we did toy hovercraft. Take a CD and glue a pop up lid from a water bottle over the center hole. Then blow up a balloon and put it over the spout. viola! you have a mini hovercraft. Next meeting we'll be building one of the leaf blower versions.

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