Flying boat on Trade Me sparks worldwide interest

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News of the flying boat from New Zealand has been whizzing round the world today after Nelson man Rudy Heeman put his invention on Trade Me.
News of the flying boat from New Zealand has been whizzing round the world today after Nelson man Rudy Heeman put his invention on Trade Me.

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04 Mar 2010 08:18p.m.

Connor wrote:

These machines have been produced by Universal Hovercraft in the States for some years. e.g. see: http://www.hovercraft.com/content/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=53 You can also see clips posted 2 years ago on Youtube of their hoverwings carrying out the exact same manouvers. I'm unsure why this Rudy guy is called an inventor... hasn't he just built his own version of an existing craft? Notice his Trademe ad states copyright not included - that's because he doesn't hold the copyright to this design! Cheers.

04 Mar 2010 10:58a.m.

Lightseed wrote:

Gerrit where on that website is a hovercraft that flys? Agree it is not new, a man in Taupo made his hovercraft fly and i believe that was covered when it happened by either tv1 or tv3 news.

02 Mar 2010 08:11p.m.

Gerrit van Giessen wrote:

This is not a new invention this is already existing look at http://www.hovercraft.com/content/index.php. There you can see that you can ever order it in a package to build it yourself

Greeting Gerrit