Hovercraft / Aircraft contraption

Doesn't EAA need one of these for zipping around on Lake Winnebago?  I should certainly think so! 

Ah.. I was just about to post this link for a topic.

Wonder if the hovercraft was also homebuilt (or just the aerial-additions)?

Universal hovercraft has been flying a Wing in Ground Effect vehicle similar to the one you posted for years.  It is available as a kit and I think was displayed at Oshkosh a number of years back.  I always wanted to see it hover / fly down the runway at Oshkosh during the parade of homebuilt aircraft portion of the show.

  Ground effect, ekranoplan, whatever you care to call it- looks like it would be a blast

By our human nature anything fun is dangerous....... she sits up there hands to a cross bar the only thing keeping her in the seat. But if he flips or rolls it in the sky, does she want to stay in the seat????

Cannot be ultra-lite, N #...... Airworthy?

First you had the Weedhopper now you got the puddle jumper.

If you are interested in building the flying hovercraft, go to hovercraft.com and see the Universal Hovercraft website. I built one and had it in the seaplane base in Oshkosh years ago. Attached is a picture. It was incredible to build, it had a Subaru Legacy engine. I have all the construction pictures I can E-mail if you are interested in building one. We had about $5K in the project.

Here is another picture from the front. It was built like a Long Eze but it used pink foam from a lumber yard and lots of fiberglass cloth! The one from Universal Hovercraft us
es lumber.  It seated 4-6 people.

Joe, that hovercraft is the first thing I thought of when I saw this video.  I think yours is a bit more practical.