Toy Hovercrafts If you like radio controlled toys, hovercrafts are a practical compromise between flying vehicles like aeroplanes and helicopters, ships and boats and landlubbers like cars and trucks. The hovercraft is actually off the ground and can travel equally easily across land or water. The problem with ships and planes is what do you do in case of battery or engine failure. The plane crashes somewhat unceremoniously often causing bits of it to come flying off and a model ship simply goes floating off in the towards the horizon. However, a hovercraft will be flown mostly upon the ground and only has around an inch to fall if anything goes wrong. However, toy hovercrafts are fast and manoeuvrable and great fun. If you meet other hobbyists, you could have races around obstacle courses too. You can purchase a model hovercraft in kit form to assemble yourself, but most of them come already as a whole unit. You merely have to charge the batteries (or add batteries) and off she goes - faster than you can run. How long you can play with it before it needs recharging relies greatly on how much money you spend on the model. It could be ten minutes or could be twenty and the recharge time is likely to be 30-60 minutes. The self-build kits are the most fun even if you are only slightly handy. They will give the enthusiast much more insight into the hobby and permit you to understand and repair any damage that occurs. You may even be able to adjust the engine or motor. Children under approximately ten will almost certainly have a hard time assembling such a model, but not flying one and older children will have a great time putting the pieces together. Adults do too. Bigger models may have a nitro or petrol engine which will give a longer airborne time. Constructing and flying a kit hovercraft would be a useful method of teaching a child about flight, aerodynamics, engines and other aspects of science. This could be integrated into a school or home schooling science project and would leave the family with an enjoyable toy or even hobby at the conclusion of it. Nothing teaches more easily that having fun and there is no reservation whatsoever that building and flying a model hovercraft is pleasurable. If you would like to look into this enthralling pastime, the Net is your best bet, because most high street outlets are too small to offer much choice. You should expect to pay somewhere between $50 -$100 for a decent kit hovercraft which is wirelessly remote or radio controlled. The short flying time of batterypowered models can become frustrating, especially if the batteries are fixed into the hovercraft.
it is better if you can take them out to recharge them so that you can have a couple of sets of pre-charged batteries. However, the best is to have a liquid fuel model although there are problems with fire safety with young children. Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on several subjects, but is currently involved with the Gifts for a Biker. If you would like to know more, visit our website at Gadgets and Toys for Adults.