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ME 490 Homemade Air Bearing

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Uploaded by on Feb 15, 2008

Homemade hovercraft (air bearing) for senior design presentation. This took about 2 hrs. I used 1/2 in plywood, a painters drop cloth with a thickness of 6 mil and my leaf blower. The lowest setting on the leaf blower is still enough to support me and Kay. It's a little slippery though!

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  • What do your calculations show this thing will lift?

    My numbers are through the roof.

  • Good, one

  • Well. That's me got an idea on how to spend my evening.

    Fantastic!

  • Nice

  • can you run it off a air compressor? very cool

  • coool

  • Nice trombone dude!

  • Lol man that's pretty cool :) Borrow a gas blower and tool around outside now =)

  • super cool..u've got skill at standing on it :D i bet if you lean to one side it will let air escape a bti so that you could actualy control it's direction..like a surfboard.

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