Dien and Boyd,

Since I am a little older than both of you (I was a teenager in the '60s), I remember a plastic model that I built probably about 1962 of a hovercraft. This unit looked similar to the vehicle used by The Jetsons cartoon family, if you are familiar with it. If I remember correctly, it had two seats. The air "machine" was in the rear behind the passenger compartment. On the bottom of the hovercraft were several jets where the air sprayed out to generate the cushion of air.

The model had a plastic hose going to the unit so you could blow in air to simulate a hovercraft experience.

I believe this was supposed to be a model of an experimental unit that one of the big auto makers were working on, but I have not heard any more about it since. Maybe they got distracted building lunar landers...

JDB