On 12/21/10 18:03 , m II wrote:
On 10-12-21 04:44 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

On a smooth payment, it would dance around the output shaft by itself.
And the output chute could drive a wind tunnel. It was the only lawn
mower that needed a tail rotor.


Neat. I once thought of trying to make a hovercraft using a lawnmower as
a base. Being a kid, I figured just bending the blade a bit more would
be enough. It's just as well that I never tried it, I would have wound
up missing toes. Or something.




mike

After the first season of Fireball XL5, I tried to build a
jetmobile using two riding lawnmower engines and counter-rotating
ducted fans. I got it to lift, but it was too unstable to remain
off the ground. I needed to build a counter rotating gyro, but never
got the transmission down to a size that was small enough to fit
inside the bodywork.