He tinkered around with homebuilt hovercraft, trying to perfect a lift system that he'd drawn up. "Over a Thanksgiving break, my brother and I built a working version of my simplified lift system ...

A 34-inch lift fan operating at 1,100 rpm balances the 60-inch (152 cm) wood and carbon composite propeller that the Flying Hovercraft spins. The hovercraft's skirt is made of resilient nylon with ...

The Hovertoon is a brainstorm brought to life by 70-year-old retired electrical engineer Dick Schramer of Berlin, Wisconsin, who thinks his creation solves a key shortcoming of hovercraft ... and lift ...

The hovercraft itself is created from blueprints for the Universal Hovercraft UH-13PT. There's a 36-inch thrust fan that's powered by a 23-horsepower engine. And the 24-inch lift fan is powered by ...

For them, for the one-percenters of the world, a new option of water- and land-based fun is available: The Flying Hovercraft ... 1,100 rpm 34-inch (86.4-cm) lift fan inflates the vinyl-coated ...