Jon Ison
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| posted on 20/10/11 at 10:45 PM |
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Hovercraft racing ?
Anyone any experience, came across it many moons ago when I stumbled upon an event, stuck in my mind I would fancy a go sometime, now may be the time,
anyone ?
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foskid
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| posted on 20/10/11 at 11:10 PM |
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Hi Jon, yes give it a go, it's great fun. I built a couple of Cyclone craft in the 80's just for cruising.
It can be as cheap or expensive as you like, just like the locost cars.
A good starting point to start would be "The hovercraft club of Great Britain"
www.hovercraft.org.uk You will get all the help and advice you need there.
Best of luck, John
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tegwin
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| posted on 21/10/11 at 08:19 AM |
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I was fairly involved with the HCGB (hovercraft club of GB). Built a couple of cruising craft and went to some of their events. Lets just say the
arrogance of most of the people I came across put me off big time. There are some very clever people in the club, there are also (or were) a large
number of tossers... Being rude to my face about the fact my craft was "homebuilt" rather than a shiny multi thousand pound fibreglass
jobbie... It was a pretty damn good effort for an 18 yearold without any help.
Always fancied having a go at racing, but couldnt stomach the people in the club...
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foskid
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| posted on 21/10/11 at 09:20 AM |
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Tegwin, it's a shame that you had a bad experience of HCGB like that, but you get that kind of thing in all sorts of clubs especially if
Sailing, Golf ,Caterham, Hunt and Gentlemens etc features somewhere in the title.
That aside the technical, spares, sales and general info side of it is well provided for. Scrutineers can be a pain if your going racing but they
don't need to see cruising craft at all, plus there is no IVA to contend with and you really don't have to put up the knob-heads and the
anal retentive chaps if you don't want to. That is the only reason I suggested the HCGB in the 1st place.
Cheers, John.
[Edited on 21/10/11 by foskid]
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paul Irvine
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| posted on 21/10/11 at 11:51 AM |
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Hovercraft
If anyone need to know the basics
PS, it's who I work for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzwRtT7NKWQ
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 21/10/11 at 04:12 PM |
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Mmmmmmm, cant be doing with that type of snobbery, done a bit of googling on the subject will maybe find a localish event and go take a look, there
seems to plenty offering flying experiences so maybe try one of them also.
A quick look on fleabay found a few for sale obviously need to learn a lot more before considering purchasing one but one add stood out, by a
manufacturer and spent more time slagging off the competition than promoting their own product, needles to say they would not be on my wish list and
it fits in with so of what is said above.
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mad-butcher
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| posted on 21/10/11 at 08:05 PM |
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Fcuk Me, reminds me of one or two on here, especially Jon's comment.
tony
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zilspeed
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| posted on 23/10/11 at 08:47 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by paul Irvine
If anyone need to know the basics
PS, it's who I work for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzwRtT7NKWQ
Paul
We share similar tastes in cars.
I've had a Star and a Leader.
Also a GTM K3.
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