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You can read all the details about Rudy Heeman’s flying hovercraft on Popular Science.
I just like watching this thing fly.
Is it practical? Is it worth the $13,000?
I mean, is any human invention truly practical on first glance?
Innovation certainly calls for refinement.
I recall when the personal computer started showing up in people’s homes in Northern California and the question was: What can this be used for?
A good family friend, who had one, responded: Storing recipes.
You mean, like for tofu?
My wife, who grew up in China, told me that many people who first had phones in their apartments – and we’re talking the good-old fashioned wired, dial models – wondered who they should call.
The reason: Phones, at one point, were so new in the apartments of Chinese people that relatives and friends didn’t have them to receive calls.
The good thing is that Heeman went airborne with his invention (and thanks to the Stranger’s Slog, where I first saw it).
Now, what would go well with this hovercraft?
A larger Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft?
How about a sleek-looking luxury boat?
Or a turbo jet zipping over the waters of Hong Kong?
A car that can be a boat?
Or how about a car that can turn into an airplane?
Or in the context of flight and what William E. Boeing Jr. told me for a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Things are changing all the time. There is no permanent goal. You keep going. You keep expanding….There is no stopping. It’s pretty hard to stop when you’re up in the air. You get in a lot of trouble if you do.
