Don’t forget the dead mans switch in case they become displaced.
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This reminds me of when I tried to make a hovercraft as a kid.
Even as a reckless little boy I knew I had call a halt to it after testing my “engine” with my “propellor”. It made a lot of wind, but trying to resist the torque of dad’s power drill with a sharp, 4-foot long piece of bent sheet steel clamped into it rotating at 3,000 RPM convinced even me to disconnect the whole thing, put it away, and pretend it never happened.
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That reminds me of the H.P. Lovercraft I tried to make as a kid.
One danger not yet mentioned is the rear wheel steering. Ask any pilot about tail draggers, or just push the cart backward on your next grocery shopping trip. Without some serious instruction, and practice a novice pilot will spin the thing out in no time flat.
I didn’t realize that Chuck Jones was already devising Acme products for some coyote to be dismembered by 17 years ahead of his birth. How visionary of him.