Thread: Futuristic Wooden Toys??

Best toy hovercraft I've seen were plastic garbage can lids with model airplane gas engines, top center. Looked like a strip of bicycle inner tube for a skirt. I have been told that these can be fitted for RC. I saw tethered ones. Kid-sized FlyMo.

I suppose with an .049 balanced on the deck and an RC rudder, away you go.

You may find it hard to relate to this:
Many, many years ago, I had a cool snow sled, maybe 40cm long, 15cm wide and 10cm high. 6mm plywood bulkhead at one end, the runners & frame maybe 4ga or 6ga iron wire (rod?). It was powered by an English JETEX solid fuel rocket engine. It could do maybe 300m @ 50kph. I had a much more powerful JETEX Scorpion rocket engine but it over powered the sled (spins, tipped over, etc.) In the summer I played with the JETEX helicopter (2 small 50B rocket engines.)

is not so Futuristic Wooden Toy, but kid loves it...
look at wooden gun here... I made it from an used piece of wood
the gear was made by band saw

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The rubbish bin lid hovercraft reminds me of one of my creations.

It was basically a balsa turbine fan with a Cox .049 bolted onto the hub. As the prop torqued one way, the body spun t'other to drive the fan..

My very own UFO!

Fitted a swivel on the bottom and hooked it up to fishing line. Never did get a successful flight out of it though, as I was stupid enough to launch it on it's maiden voyage near my childhood nemesis: the kite-eating tree.

Hey Skew!
I never looked very closely, it was years ago. How big a motor would I need for a rubbish tin lid?

I was thinking about fishing in lakes. I could use the machine to get my bait 100m offshore, easy. Drop the bait/lure/fly & come home. Heck, maybe even troll with it!

I have seen guys fishing with RC helicopters for hauling line but I need economical.

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

Hey Skew!
I never looked very closely, it was years ago. How big a motor would I need for a rubbish tin lid?

I was thinking about fishing in lakes. I could use the machine to get my bait 100m offshore, easy. Drop the bait/lure/fly & come home. Heck, maybe even troll with it!

The thing with it is... there's no inbuilt steering whatsoever.

Mine was eaten by the tree before I discovered whether you could simply angle it in the right general direction at lift-off.

I also don't know what sort of payload the .049 would carry... or how you'd arrange a release mechanism. But these are just minor tech problems and there are bigger motors out there.

I don't see any reason why it can't be done!

Reminds me of a model aeroplane owner some years ago, who just had to have the biggest, and most expensive Radio-controlled model aircraft he could afford. Unfortunately he desided to," test fly," it on the clifttop carpark at the Edithburgh, SYP. foreshore. Model airplane took off ok,- but something went horribly haywire with the Radio-control system, and it was last seen heading out across the bay, in a South-Easterly direction, never to be seen again !!
He took to making static plastic models after that - can't possibly imagine why?????
Can't possibly ??????

Roger

Reminds me of a model aeroplane owner some years ago, who

converted his balsa wood model aeroplane into a kit set on his first flight....Dont ask.....

I've seen people fish lakes and rivers with balloons. Blow one up, grapefruit size, and tie it off. Fishing line held loosely into a paperclip on the stem of the balloon. Let it drift off with the breeze/current. Keep meaning to try it.
I don't think that dragging some free-spooling fishing line would be much of a load for a hovercraft.

We use plastic bobbers made for fishing. You can set your lure or spinner a distance you want from the bobber then cast the whole thing out as far as it will go and the current or breeze will do the rest. I haven't fished in a number of years, kinda getting me thinkin about it again.......

Another scary moment involving a Model Plane, which happened about 10 yrs ago;- Yorketown has an Airstrip located on high ground about a K out of town, with the approach / take-off path parellel to, and about 500 metres from the school oval, where someone decided to fly their nice new R/c Model plane across the approach path just as the RFDS Plane was coming in to land. Result;- one aborted landing. Someone on the ground got a good chatting up by the local man in uniform, plus one Model plane got, " arrested, " as evidence for flying into protected airspace
Aparently the culprit was a local teacher who didn't stop to check anything out regarding real Aviation Regulations
Roger