![]() "I think it is going to scare all the fish away but I'm going to try. "Once it gets a nice paint job I've got many hours of further testing and then off to go fishing in the Top End on it," he said. Mr Greenberger said he intended to give the hovercraft a fresh coat of paint and get it back out on the water. "I think if I start anything in the near future I'm going to get in trouble … so I'll stick with this for a while, but I think there's many years of enjoyment out of it." "Every little moment I had spare was working on the hovercraft … but every now and then I brought flowers home to her to let her know I still cared, but I just wanted to see it fly." "It's been a little difficult but she understood," Mr Greenberger said. Mr Greenberger said his partner, however, might have something to say about his new transport. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority said it did not regulate hovercraft because they were not considered aircraft. "But if there are any worries, I am a commercial pilot." Darwin doesn't require registration for boats and they also don't require boat licences. "It is a watercraft, it is classified as a boat. "I did approach them and make sure they were fine with everything and they said they were just Snapchatting to their friends. "On the testing day, there were two police watching it all unfold, and by the time I was ready for the test there were eight officers up there," he said. Saw this whilst riding my bike up to East Point! - Bobbie Wilkes-Brimage Materials the biggest obstacleīuilt piece-by-piece from 2D technical drawings in his carport and at the Palmerston Men's Shed during the humid Top End wet season, Mr Greenberger's project needed a lot of workshopping and hand crafting over the past 11 months. Great to see someone with an idea and the drive to actually build something from scratch, hope I get to see it up close one day - Tony Henderson ![]() ![]() Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it's a … it's a … all right what the hell is that?! - Fiona Bond Second round we all had our cameras out ready! - Rebecca McLean First time we were all sitting there stunned. Well you scared the living daylights out of us. ![]() Many of them took to social media to express their reaction to the sight. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Ideal for Leisure, Inshore/Loch/Lake Fun, Tourism, Work boat, Lake/Loch/Sea Fishing, Fast transport, Safety/Rescue, Light Commercial use. "So for many years there were no more hovercraft, and it was probably another 15 years to get into it after that."īut on a recent sunny Saturday morning in Darwin, Mr Greenberger saw one of his biggest projects take flight - and there were plenty of people out on Darwin's coastline to witness it. An exceptional opportunity to purchase a Coastal Pro Mk1Hovercraft No license required (classed as Small Boat). "I asked my dad to build it and he said no because it was too unsafe." It was just a round, plywood disk with a lawn mower engine," he said. "I just remember, back when I was 12, I wanted to build this hovercraft called a Pegasus. James Greenberger said sourcing materials was one of the greatest obstacles in the project. ![]()
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