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Hovercraft range in price from about $6000 to about 16 grand for a really nifty design by Hovercraft Concepts in Miami (305-256-8696). So while the air still may be free, riding on it certainly isn't.

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Well, Horizon Hobby has now taken a similar approach with its Blade Inductrix Switch RTF, which is a quadcopter/hovercraft combo. When users want to get airborne, the Switch's copter component can ...

By hinging the pontoons and swinging them up and out, he gained 50 percent more surface area and lowered the deck by about 25 inches, so less air would need to be compressed within the hovercraft’s ...

The target price for a production version is $30,000, which would make it competitive with traditional hovercraft on the market as well as the $40,000 Gibbs Quadski amphibious ATV.