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The new school year has begun and there is a new project beginning. This year the new students will be building a UH-14P. The craft is a little larger than last year’s UH-13P. We will also be modifying the design to include a second engine for the lift system. This will dramatically simplify the system [...]

The craft has come back from United Auto Collision where they did great job as always. We decided on a blue craft with a spray-on bed liner material for the horizontal surfaces to prevent someone from slipping when boarding or disembarking. I’ll publish pictures when the craft is fully reassembled.

You can see we didn’t keep up the site like we should have. Things got incredibly hectic near the end of the project and it fell between the cracks. We have learned a lot and are looking forward to documenting the build better the next time through. We had successful test on lake Ogletree. What [...]

With the help of some very dedicated students we made some progress this week. Monday Morning we had 4 students working on the craft by 8:15 AM during their spring break. It was great to see us have more than 1 hour at a time to give to the craft. We got a lot done. [...]

This was a very good week for the deck team. Lots of hard and quick work helped us aproach finishing the deck. We fixed the plywood lamination and made sure there were no defects. Next, we ran a router around the edge of the deck to make the plywood flush with the skirt attach strips. [...]

This week, we made an effort to laminate the foam deck with 1/8″ plywood. We placed epoxy in between the plywood and the foam and then layed the plywood on top of the foam. Then, we put the entire deck into a vacuum bag to ensure that the plywood had equal pressure on it while [...]

We made alot of progress this week. The lift duct has been constructed using layers of fiberglass epoxied to take the shape of the duct. It is fairly rigid and we believe it is the best answer to our problems. On Thursday we wrapped the fiberglass duct in 2-inch foam to complete the shape. We [...]

Welcome to the Auburn High School Industrial Systems Technology Hovercraft Build Log.
The hovercraft project began in earnest today. This past weekend I addressed one of my larger concerns by creating a hot wire to cut the foam. I made the final decision to use Dow style insulation foam instead of regular white styrofoam because the [...]

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