Well, this headline is what you might call poetic license in that it needs extra clarification: anyone can build a hovercraft at home, as long as that "anyone" is skilled, hard-working, determined, ...

Okay, so a 26-year-old graduate student in San Francisco wants you to pledge him money so that he can finish building his — are you ready? — Delorean hovercraft. Matthew Riese, who says he owes this ...

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How? Using the air from the balloon! When the air from the balloon was released out of the pop-up bottle top, it shot out and was forced against the flat surface the CD was sitting on. With nowhere to ...

1) Check your CD to make sure that the bottom is completely flat. Some CD’s have a very small raised rim near the center that can cause your CD hovercraft not to work as well and should be carefully ...

Talking about the concepts of airflow and friction might bore your kids to tears, so why not bring fun into the science classroom with this build-it-yourself hovercraft project? Your kids will have so ...

Hovercrafts have the distinct advantage of being just as comfortable on water as they are on land, but usually at the cost of a pretty ugly and utilitarian design. So the engineers at Mercier-Jones ...

Using a bicycle, a plastic bag, a fan and pieces of wood, some Centennial High School students have made a human-powered Hovercraft that can carry as many as five passengers a foot above the ground.