Customer Reviews

Introduction to Radio Control Hovercraft

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I wanted to find out how to design and build my own model hovercraft and this book had everything I needed. There are details about the design of the body of the craft, motors to use and even how to connect up the radio control. The most difficult bit of the design of hovercrafts is the bag skirt and this book has details on how thats done that I couldn't find anywhere else. Highly recommend this book.

Overall the book provides a good review of R/C Hovercraft. The introduction of some formulas for computing air flow, size of motor or size of craft may only confuse a novice. The info on placement of the R/C and motor components was helpful. The best advice would be to buy a R/C Hovercraft Kit first, get familar with it and then buy the book.

Having become interested in how hovercraft work, the next step was to figure out how to make a model. This book provided me with everything I needed to know. And the author has a web site with kits available that I will recommend to my friends!

This book has a lot of interesting and usefuly theory on hovercrafts. Often, practical details are completely missing. The price is not appropriate to the content. I've had to go back to searching the web for the real nuts and bolts details on how to build model hovercraft. Very dissapointed.