Stan Taylor and his physics class at Miles Community College built a hovercraft powered by an average electric leaf blower! Watch it in action below.
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10 Comments
a little noisy but pretty cool.
not that great
try adding 3 more leaf blowers made it legit
they did something ike this on mythbusters
Cool. I'll bet theirs was way better. How many leaf blowers did they use?
Gay a thon,needs 100 more hp than lets talk.
SOMEONE HAD TO MUCH TIME ON THERE HANDS
I WOULD RATHER USE THE LEAF BLOWER TO CLEAN MY YARD
look at me on a hoverboard. i'm floating 2 inches off the ground. wee. do this on a larger scale.
wow they didnt think this through.. what are they gonna do when theres leaves everywhere?!
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