Hoverboard test2

The final flight over our hoverboard ends with the failure of the 90 degree bevel gear. With a new gear, 'Hurricane' will fly again, but our time with her is up, as we hand her onto next years 3rd year mechanical engineering students at strathclyde.

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• hovercraft

[neiltigh]

Aye, the power systems actually failed in the end. The engine actually had enough grunt, but the 90 degree bevel gear we used to drive the customised fan wasn't up to the job and in the end failed. There IS enough air moving through the pressurised air chamber underneath for lift and hover, however a poor skirt design (it is a pre-inflated tractor inner-tube) meant it couldn't deal with the rider shifting his/her bodyweight and the low inertia throttling system caused the drivetrain to fail.

[happysingerinoz]

The hoverboard used at the Olympics in Sydney had a small drive wheel underneath, I think it cleared the ground when moving but if u leaned back you could put weight on it for drive and to tuen lean back and to the side to assist with steering, maybe u guys could look at adding something like that next,,,

[neiltigh]

Yeh, thats a good idea. Our design brief stipulated that directionality was not achieved by additional systems. The concept was to use an over-rated lift fan and a deformable skirt, allowing the additional thrust produced by the lift fan to be vectored simply by the rider shifting his weight... if you follow. It didn't exactly work (poor skirt design, faulty drivetrain to blame.)

[sprintrjm]

dumb vid of a lame product

[neiltigh]

Its not a product, its a 3rd year university project, but thanks for the constructive criticism. Watch out for this years 3rd years efforts, they look like they might take it forward another level.

[guitarguy950]

dude virtue is right, u cant actually do anything on that except...like do nothing

[neiltigh]

its cool guys, it was just a uni project, we didn't have the budget or time to do anything fancy with the skirt and our brief didn't allow independent drive systems. Happy hovering virtue!

[mapukmapuk]

hey its Makarov and his band from cod 6! XD

[novatron11]

We need a skateboard that levitates somehow.

Cool, but not practical

Almost there!.

[joeratti]

i think this would work fine as it is. that engine is crap though.

[135287]

pollution...

[TheThegirlsnextdoor]

its not a huverboard

[PorkyPiggles]

Good effort! I can't see where the lateral propulsion comes from though. I like the zimmer frame helm too! :)

[skywood12]

i want 1