sienna kirk's 8th grade project
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Building a
HovercraftSienna Kirk’s
8th grade project
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4 Types of Hovercraft
Type 1 hovercraft
Sport hovercraft
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Industrial or
commercial
hovercraft
Flight-capable
hovercraft
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Why Do Hovercrafts Float?
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Building Materials 4 foot diameter plywood
Powerful leaf blower
Heavy duty shower curtain
Plastic garden chair
Foam tubing
Paint can lid
Skill saw & jig saw
Drill
Heavy duty staple gun
Duct tape
Compass
Straps
Exacto knife
Wood glue
Screw driver
Nuts and bolts
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Making Hovercraft Platform
Drew outline of 4 foot
diameter circle
Used skill saw to cut
out circle (with help of
friends Rudy and
Sergio)
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Sanded down the
edges after cutting out
the hovercraft body
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Performing Balance Test We placed a baseball under the hovercraft body to help locate the
center. This helped to determine where to place the chair/human and
leaf blower so that the weight would be distributed evenly.
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Learning and having
fun with my mentor
Mike Campos
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Figuring It Out & Getting Started
After finding the weight
center, we:
Fiddled around with
the leaf blower to
find the best
placement
Did the same with
the plastic garden
chair
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Used a drill and jigsaw
to cut a hole for the leaf
blower nozzle
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Used duct tape to create
a tighter fit
Inserted leaf blower in hole
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Attaching Shower Curtain
Stapled the heavy duty shower curtain to the plywood body
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Hammered
down the
staples for safety
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Cut the
extra plastic
off
Glued the
plastic to the
body for
extra
strength
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Secured the shower curtain edge with
duct tape
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Creating Vast Air Bubble
Bolted on a
paint lid to form
a donut-
shaped air
bubble so
shower curtain
wouldn’t drag
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Used a compass to determine where to place 6 holes on the heavy duty shower curtain where the air will escape equally
Drew outlines of circles and used exacto knife to cut them out
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Attached foam piping for a bumper
Taking Safety Precautions
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Drilled in an
eye hook
Attached a
rope to hold so
I don’t fly away
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Bolting Everything Together
Screwed down straps that hold down the leaf blower so it doesn’t go any where
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Screwed down
the chair, that
way when you
fly you don’t fall
off
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It is now ready to FLY!
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Houston We Have a Problem
From all the air pressure,
shower curtain tore
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Failure is Not an Option
Reinforced shower
curtain and new
paint can lid with
more duct
tape, staples, and
nuts and bolts
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What an Adventure!