Hover craft and model rockets!

[fortyshooter]

Wife and I were walking Buster down at the soccer fields and I noticed something I had not seen since a 60's issue of Popular Mechanics magazine...a hover craft sitting in the field! The guy that owned it was also busy getting ready to set off a nice 3 ft. tall Estes model rocket.
We watched the rocket take off and it didn't bother Buster a bit and it worked as planned with shute popping open and landing 60 yds away.

Guy told me a drive belt that runs the fan on the hover craft was slipping and will have to repair it. Was a great ending to a Sunday late afternoon and a nice trip back to the 60's! Wish I had brought my ipad along for some good pics!

[Ernie]

I wanted to build a hovercraft in the late 60s but never got around to it. By then we had moved into town and there was nowhere close to use it anyway. I still want a ducted fan aircraft like popular mechanics used to write about.

[Oldbrass]

Awe yes the 60s, think I'll get some steel pipe and build another black powder cannon. How on earth we survived? Sounds like you and Buster had a good day.

[cooperhawk]

Awe yes the 60s, think I'll get some steel pipe and build another black powder cannon. How on earth we survived? Sounds like you and Buster had a good day.

Potato Guns! As grown men we used to terrify the neighborhood shooting at each other with them.