If it was a single engined one, then it could have started to fill its skirts and lift a little, but if it were a twin engined one, probably nothing as that larger, vertically oriented prop is attached to the engine that moves the thing, not the lift engine whose prop lies flat in the deck.suffolkpete wrote:All this talk about hovercraft reminds me of the time I was following a hovercraft being towed at speed on a trailer down the A12. As the speed picked up I could see the engine being turned over compression by the propeller and wondered what would happen if it suddenly started
Aron, Clarkson might have his own craft but he had a wife too and look how that panned out.
In a single engined one, the fact that its one and only prop was turning would fill the skirt as, if the air is turning the prop, then it's also being directed into the skirt by ducts which are how a single engined machine stays afloat. Mine had a lift engine that was donated by a Wet Dream found in a bike breaker's place and its thrust engine was a flat twin from a BMW, chosen because it looked good.Mitsuru wrote:hopefully nothing if they have shut off the fuel!
