2007-02-13 03:18:05 · 16 answers · asked by Ockie K 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Air boats, also called fan boats, are flat-bottomed punts powered by a propeller attached to an automobile or aircraft engine. The propeller has the typical shape and size of an airplane propeller and so requires a large metal cage to protect passengers and other users.
The flat bottom allows air boats to navigate easily through shallow swamps and marshes as well as in canals, rivers and lakes, it can also be used on frozen lakes.
The driver sits high on a platform to improve visibility and to permit spotting floating obstacles and animals in the path of the boat. Steering is accomplished by swiveling vertical fins positioned in the propeller wash in the very rear of the airboat, so control is a function of current, wind, water depth and propeller thrust.
Crabbing into the wind or current is required. The noise from the propeller and engine is quite loud; the majority of the noise is produced by the propeller. Air boats vary in size from 18 person tour boats to trail boats carried on a road trailer and suitable for two or three passengers.
2007-02-13 03:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those boats are called airboats. Just type the word "airboat" into a search engine and you will come up with pages and pages of information. Take it from there to get the information you need about airboats in your particular area.
2007-02-13 03:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by Janine E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hover craft and air boat are not the same. A hover craft rides on a cushion of air. An airboat rides in the water being pushed by air
A hover craft is essentially an air boat, but an air boat is not a hover craft..
2007-02-13 04:35:06 · answer #3 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A swamp boat
2007-02-13 03:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called Air Boats
2016-05-24 05:22:58 · answer #5 · answered by Christine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called an airboat. They can run in little or no water.
You can type Airboat into your search engine and it should be able to give you more Information.
2007-02-13 05:20:01 · answer #6 · answered by andrewj_j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air boats, also called fan boats, are flat-bottomed punts powered by a propeller attached to an automobile or aircraft engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_boat
http://www.glen-l.com/designs/special/airboat.html
http://www.airboatadventures.com/
have fun.
2007-02-13 03:23:56 · answer #7 · answered by Captain Jack ® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fanboat, swampboat...same thing....
call your local marina or boat dealership...
my neighbor had one back in the day, that thing was LOUDDDD he'd start it up for the heck of it, just sitting in the driveway...arrrrgh, not good when you had a hangover.
2007-02-13 03:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by Munya Says: DUH! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called an airboat. If you google it, I'm sure you'll find lots of information.
2007-02-13 03:20:51 · answer #9 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Airboat...
xxB
2007-02-13 03:20:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋