Dry fit of the RC hovercraft. Thank you @PeterSripol for the stl files. I’m looking forward to getting this thing going.
You need to incorporate one of these into your downwards fan!:
What do you intend to use as the hovercraft belt? I have an old RC hovercraft, but the belt is broken.
@Derick_Thomas this is awesome, please keep updated coming. Nice print.
No belt. Using two electric motors on separate channels. Lift will be on the throttle channel and forward thrust on the pitch/elevator channel. Hope to start gluing together this week in between working on my quadcopter. I’m starting with the garbage bag approach for the first skirt and may look into ripstop nylon later if things work out. The original design didn’t call for tabs to hold together hull but I made tabs to be glued to each side of the hull to give it more support. Also the cockpit didn’t have a real good way to attach to I made two standoffs that will glued and screwed to the hull from beneath then allowing for the cockpit to be removed easily.
I meant the skirt. Yeah it is a good idea to give some light support to the skirt with tabs. Let me know your experiences with ripstop nylon as soon as you tried it.
@Derick_Thomas
…you’re going to need a third channel for either steering vanes or pivoting the rear fan!!!
I’m using a four channel receiver and I have a small servo for the rudder control.