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This was the first hovercraft that my dad and I built together when I was 14 back in 2000. The UH-10f was a great father son project and I even raced a couple times while I was in high school. The UH-10f Is a entry level design. It was 10 feet long, 5 feet wide and powered by a 10hp tecumseh horizontal shaft engine. The top speed was around 35 and 225lbs-250lbs was the top payload.
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After the Hover bug bit us we just HAD to have a bigger, better, and faster hovercraft!!! We ended up selling our UH-10f and built this EA-82 100hp Subaru powered UH-18sp when I was in highschool back in 2002. The 18sp was a very fun hovercraft, with a top speed of 75mph+ and could carry about 6 people! Our 18sp got lots of use, but we got an offer to sell if that we just couldn't pass up, a little more on that later........
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The summer after high school, 2003, I was board and had some extra building materials laying around so I designed my first hovercraft, a 1/2 scale radio controlled hovercraft I call Mini Manta. I designed and build everything including the foam and glass prop used for lift and thrust.
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When we sold the UH-18sp my dad and I decided to start a hovercraft company called ZB Hover Creations and we build a couple prototype hovercraft and sold parts, etc... We sold parts for a couple of years, but later we had little time to dedicate to building parts and developing plans so the hovercraft business has since been shut down, I hope to offer some hovercraft plans some day....
One of the proto-type hovercraft I designed and built was our Sport Cruiser, a sporty and simple 2 person cruiser. It is 12.5' long 6.5' wide semi pointed, powered by a 10hp Tecumseh lift engine, and a 27hp Kohler thrust engine. I designed and built everything except the engines include both the prop and lift fan. The Sport Cruiser is an open cockpit Hovercraft that is a sporty, yet simple and practical and gives the pilot enough power to reach speeds of 55mph + and is also able to cruise with everyone else! The Thrust engine cover and front hood/engine cover are molded fiberglass. We built the Sport Cruiser around 2005 and still own and operate it.
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The 2nd proto-type hover I designed and built was the X-10 it is a 10 foot long entry level hovercraft on which I designed and built every part of these hovercraft from props/fans and up.... It is powered by a 14hp tecumseh engine driving a seperate lift fan and thrust prop. Both the prop and fan are a fiberglass over foam construction to conserve weight on this small hover. The X-10 is also a semi pointed open cockpit design with simplicity in mind, top speed is estimated to be 35-40mph with a lifting capacity of around 250lbs.
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Just a few pictures from some Hover Rallies and Hover-Ins we've been too..... This Section needs to be updated, I'll try to do that ASAP.
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