Full size Printed Plans Scale 1:16 Electric powered SRN5 Hovercraft Suitable for Radio Control

Full size Printed Plans & Article

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Electric powered SRN5 Hovercraft

Full size printed plan on a 36” x 27” sheet

Four-page article with building notes and photos

Hovercraft

Scale 1:16

Length 29”

Beam 17”

Electric motor

Suitable for Radio Control

By Mark Porter's

the British Hovercraft Corporation SRN5 which, with it's bigger sister the SRN6, has become arguably the most successful hovercraft built. The SRN6 is basically a stretched version of the SRN5 and has an extra four ribs on each side deck. This plan can be used to construct either craft, and in this case the SRN6 would be seven and a quarter inches longer than the model shown here.

I decided to construct an electric model and set a running time of fifteen minutes as a target. This not only meant that the model would have to be light but the skirt had to be efficient. This resulted in a structure predominantly made of balsa sheet with plywood formers to attach the standard RS540 motors.

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