My son built a hover craft for his science fair project. He tested the impact skirt size would have on payload lifting capacity. Here it is lifting his brother's entire cub scout den.
Here is a picture of the max weight it lifted:
And here it is in action (turn sound down):
Not too bad for plywood, plastic and duct tape. We want to put a few high thrust motors on this and use thrust vectoring to steer it. Definitely gonna have to shroud the props...
Here is a picture of the max weight it lifted:
And here it is in action (turn sound down):
Not too bad for plywood, plastic and duct tape. We want to put a few high thrust motors on this and use thrust vectoring to steer it. Definitely gonna have to shroud the props...