# @kiwico on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=MlcBkBAdJ98
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28989952-kiwico-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b07b665abd.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-04-04T21:00:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** KiwiCo (@kiwico_inc) — https://gondola.cc/kiwico_inc

## Caption

In this wild experiment, we try to build our own DIY hovercraft from scratch! Will we glide like a pro or spin out of control? Let’s find out!
Tinker, create, and innovate with more hands-on discovery from kiwico.com
Video Chapters!
00:00 What are hovercrafts?
00:39 Let's design
02:10 Let's build
04:34 Time for a rebuild
05:58 We have a hovercraft
Read More:
Hovercraft facts for kids
https://kids.kiddle.co/Hovercraft
“A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces”

How Does a Hovercraft Work?
https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-does-a-hovercraft-work/
“Hovercrafts are more like airplanes than either boats or cars. They hover on a cushion of pressurized air. Although it might sound like magic, it’s actually pure science!”

Make a Hovercraft
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/project/make-a-hovercraft/
“NASA uses hovercraft to test spacecraft and the ways they need to move. This is because the objects we put in space experience hardly any friction – and the same is true of hovercraft.”

#KiwiCo, #hovercraft #science #engineering #creativity

## Stats

- **Views:** 8,713
- **Likes:** 47
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 5

## Tags

engineering, science, creativity, kiwico, hovercraft

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