Tag: HOVERCRAFT

This is Matthew Riese. That thing next to him? That's his hover DeLorean. Seriously. This 26-year-old grad student and San Francisco resident is building one of the most amazing and ridiculous things we have ever seen -- a completely custom, wood and fiberglass hovercraft, modeled after one of the most iconic failures in automotive history. For the past two years, Riese has been working ...

By sea, by air or by land, no terrain is out of the question for a New Zealand inventor's do-all vehicle. According to a Reuters video (watch below), Rudy Heedman has built a homemade hovercraft that uses a set of detachable wings to take flight when it reaches 44 mph. It's a child's (or adrenaline junkie's) dream come true. Once he leaves the water for the sky, Heedman is protected from death or ...

While previous personal hovercraft attempts have looked like they'd inflict anything from broken limbs to certain death upon the operator, British inventor Geoff Hatton's new design almost certainly prevents that, if only because his vehicle actually too small to ride. However, if the mini-hovercraft's military aspirations come to fruition, it might be responsible for bringing a little pain to ...