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Homemade Ducted-Fan Airboat
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:33 pm
by DR
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Using a piece of closed-cell foam, a 2-Liter soda bottle, a couple nuts/bolts and a Mini-Personal Fan, this boat was slapped together in less than 2 hours. (The most time-consuming part of the build was shaping the hull with a file).
Just another example of the silly things you can do... if you're bored enough! ~ <a href="
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse. ... 001">Album Views</a>
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:40 pm
by risto
beautiful modeling shot!
looks like its really on the open ocean! =P
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:48 pm
by DR
risto wrote:beautiful modeling shot!
looks like its really on the open ocean! =P
It is on the open ocean! ~ I'm in search of the <a href="
http://www.getodd.com/duck/largeimg/db4 ... jpg">Great Yellow Rubber Duckie!"</a> who's been terrorizing the open seas, as well as many local beach front properties along the Pacific Coast.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:53 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
Nice! The hull came out great. I had to do something similar for a school project once. I had a block or styrofoam and a file... 3 hours later I had a Greek Bireme!
Go to Slofly.com and look for brushless outrunner motor kits. They're dirt cheap and should suit that boat perfectly with the right prop.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:59 pm
by DR
Thanks for the link!
No current plans to make another one. this was simply one of those "rainy day" projects. - Sometimes, I just get tired of building the same thing over and over... and over.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:12 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
Actually, I was wrong. I haven't been on slofly in months. They don't sell kits anymore. Oh well.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:44 pm
by A-98
wow, that sure is purty. how fast do you think it goes?
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:48 pm
by DR
A-98 wrote:wow, that sure is purty. how fast do you think it goes?
30-35 knots, when I activate the top-secret voltage flux capacitor!
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:54 pm
by benstern
I made a boat ...... out of a broken model airplane. Itgoes like 1.5 mph.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:00 pm
by frankrede
DR, now I want to make one but not much water in vegas minus lake meade.
I think I will make one.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:05 pm
by DR
frankrede wrote:DR, now I want to make one but not much water in Vegas, minus Lake Mead.
Lots of swimming pools though, which is what this was really made to be played with in.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:56 pm
by Orpackrat
I need to build one now especially since I have the perfect motor and propeller.
High performance Reed Valve Engine, 2 Stroke, runs on Nitro fuel.
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:04 am
by DR
You'll definitely need to include a KEEL in your design, to counteract the force put out by that motor! - It should really rip ass!
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:49 am
by Insomniac
benstern wrote:I made a boat ...... out of a broken model airplane. Itgoes like 1.5 mph.
Hahaha, my friend had a sh*tty R/C plane (the ones that use thrust variation to steer, no control surfaces) and we crashed it. (kinda hard not to, variable thrust is the worst possible way of steering a plane. I have an R/C plane that has rudder and elevator control, and I've never crashed it)
Anyway, we ripped it apart and armed with the guts of the plane, bits of foam and wood, a couple of soda bottles and LOTS of electrical tape, we made the crappiest, ugliest, slowest, least manuveralble and most ghetto R/C boat ever. It was lots of fun lol.
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:41 am
by Orpackrat
Alright, I quickly made a plexi-glass boat and put two fins down, one on each side in the back to stablize and steer the boat. Its a flat bottom basically with a 2 stroke nitro fuelled engine. I have rubber bands holding it in place for the picture but I need to get some bolts and fuel before it takes off.
