3D FREESTYLE

I was just wondering if anyone had every atempted to use a basic hovercraft as a means off landing gear that would enable you to take of and land on almost anything snow,ice,water,shortgrass,asphalt ect. i made a hovercraft that has an electric lift fan and weighed in at about 6 ounces without battery. for this expiriment i was considering mounting it on my GWS slow stick powered by 350C i am not sure this setup could handle the exrta wheight. the battery on my slow stick is a 2200 mah li-poly i was condidering running a second speed crontrol from the battery and then plug it in to the flaps channel and on landing aproach i would sipmly flip a switch to activae the lift fan, however as i consider this i realize at the end of flight when its neccesary to land the battery will be lacking of ample power to operate the "hoverboard" i could also use another pack for the landing gear but this setup would nearly double the wheight of my 13ounce park flyer and weigh in at 20+ ounces[:@]. at that wheight im asuming the flying charachteristics will suck not even mentioning the amount of drag produced by a hovecraft slung under its belly[]. any comments are welcome and im very interested in imformation about past attempts thanks,
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Gizmo3D

Um...!

I'm on a University team that is building a heavy lift challenge aircraft (I believe the US has a similar event). Anyway, our project supervisor suggested a hovercraft landing system (presumably because the rolling friction during takeoff disapears).

Since then all my faith in the teaching staff at this uni has been terminated until further notice!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the technical and practical problems FAR outweigh anyway advantage. That said do it anyway!

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Heavy Date

Back in the late 60's or early 70's a full scale Lake amphib was fitted with a hovercraft system. I saw some video of it and it was pretty wild. I see no reason why it can't be done on a model as well.
Hans