Hovercrafts in movies

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Hovercraft Definition: A vehicle that travels just over water or land on a air cushion provided with a downward thrust.

 This is the Feb 26 blog. I'm going to be identifying in what movies a hovercraft is classified as a "hovercraft". First is Avengers, second it's Star Wars IV and finally some James Bond movies. 

So... The Avengers helicarrier from the movies, the question is.....is it a hovercraft? According to the definition stated above it's around 50% yes and 50% no. It indeed does travel over water and land with it being provided by a downward thrust. Except it is wayyy of the ground and there is no air cushion on the helicarrier. So technically it is indeed a hovercraft.

The Landspeeder is a vehicle Luke uses in Star Wars IV. Once again this is also part hovercraft and not. It is close to the ground and it goes on land and possibly water (we don't know). It is never shown in the movies that it can go on water but it definitely can go on land. It is also not a hovercraft because, once again there is no air cushion on the bottom but this time it has no downward thrust. Instead it just hovers in the air. Once again we have a classification of a part hovercraft and part not hovercraft in a movie.

Our final movie(s) are from the legendary spy, James Bond. A hovercraft appears in 2 movies, Moonraker and Die Another Day. First is Die Another Day. The hovercraft in the movie there is a real military grade hovercraft. Just above the water, downward thrust, and has the air cushion. This hovercraft is Nolan Approved! The hovercraft is meeting all of my standards! The second one is Moonraker, and Moonraker is the first JB movie my dad saw. Moonraker is a great movie and has an interesting hovercraft. For the first part of the movie there is a gondola chase race. But later on, James transforms the gondola into a makeshift hovercraft by flipping a switch to get away. The hovercraft is not legit, but it works. It's just like the other one, a full 100%!

After realizing that hovercraft are used by people who are spy's, superheroes and people on different planets, it is fair to say that all of them have and use a hovercraft...or something like it. That's all for this post, see ya!

Jan 29 Blog.

 (This is done on my iPad so there are no special things)

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 This is my second blog for this month as we are now in the present of Hovercrafts. A new brand of hovercraft is the Mercier-Jones "Supercraft". This baby is known as the Bugatti Veyron of Hovercrafts. It is a hefty price of $$75,000 so you better be saving up money for it. It goes 80mph (128kph) which is really fast for a water and land vehicle. The company was founded in 2013 and is selling today. An image is posted below of this blog to see how fricken sweet this looks. I have researched a website of a man and his diaries of when he was on a hovercraft. The page also has a little place where he tells you tips on building Hovercrafts. A hovercraft would break and come to a stop. There is a part where it talks about electromagnets and if the hovercraft had circuits and those would store energy generated by the speed of the hovercraft. If you wanted to brake you would have to close the circuit using a switch and stop the electrics flow into the fans blowing you forward and slowly bring you to a stop. An easier way would be to drop an anchor and stop immediatley. Although you could hit someone with the anchor and it would be a hassle to put it back into the hovercraft, not to mention that anchors are obsurdly heavy and would make it so your hovercraft would go reeeeealy slow.

 This has been my 5th blog for genius hour.

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Supercraft  Pic.