View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptySteering and seating 3For the throttle set up i’ve gone with this arrangement, similar concept to how the formula 1 car guys do it with their gear changing in the steering wheel. Not that its totally clear in this picture but the current position shown is when at idle, i’ve […]
I have both cables mounted now and they are working correctly together, there is almost 180 degrees rotation of the steering shaft from lock to lock. The cable mounting brackets are simply just some aluminium box tubing bolted in place and rather than use the cable ends that i made up i decided to go […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptySteering and Seating AreaI finally come up with a plan that i think will work for my steering, the assembly i have made from 2 bearings, a bit of exhaust pipe and a couple of exhaust clamps and mounted to the cockpit front using a scrap piece of 6mm aluminum […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyFan Frame 2Got all the 9 blades in place, not yet all cut to the correct tip clearance (i’m aiming for 5mm clearance) but they are in and spinning for now. You can also see here that i have the fan gear now sitting on the shaft, when i bought […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyFan Frame ConstructionThis is the idea i had for making the fan frame. I made this using a 3D Cad type program and as you can see i had no idea how to use it properly but it gave me a fair indication of what i wanted , and when […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyRudder FitmentHere is what my rudders look like , they are a aero foil shape and are made completely from fibre glass so they are nice and light. Once again these are not part of the original superwedge plans but can be easily incorporated if you want to spend the […]
HoverCraft HomePage Start Here View Trike Build [vcv_widgets tag=”wpWidgetsDefault” key=”WP_Widget_Search” instance=”%7B%22key%22%3A%22%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22%22%7D” args=”%7B%22before_title%22%3A%22%22%2C%22after_title%22%3A%22%22%2C%22before_widget%22%3A%22%22%2C%22after_widget%22%3A%22%22%7D”] [vcv_widgets tag=”wpWidgetsDefault” key=”WP_Widget_Categories” instance=”%7B%22widget-form%22%3A%5Bnull%2C%7B%22dropdown%22%3A%22on%22%2C%22count%22%3A%22on%22%2C%22hierarchical%22%3A%22on%22%7D%5D%7D” args=”%7B%22before_title%22%3A%22%22%2C%22after_title%22%3A%22%22%2C%22before_widget%22%3A%22%22%2C%22after_widget%22%3A%22%22%7D”] 2021 update In my earlier days i got creative and built a 3 man hovercraft and a two man fuel injected Trike. This website is a collection of the build process i went through to achieve both those […]
– View the Trike Build – – View the Hover Build – – I’m empty – Duct Area 4 – This is one of my air diverter panels finally put in place. The panels i fitted here are in a V shape and go from the rear corners of the cockpit to the center, i […]
Duct Area 3View the Trike buildI have now fibre glassed the rear duct panels with two layers of glass on the inside seams and one layer on the outside seams. I have also cut the hole in the duct where the splitter plate will go. The splitter plate is currently still left off cause i […]
Duct Area 2View the Trike buildThe rear panel that I’m going with is not what the superwedge usually has and like i said earlier it’s cause i have to allow for the full sized rudders, so what i’m making here is a flat panel that is supported by several legs that i have glued in…