What Shape will Hover Boards of the Future Be?

Everyone knows what a skateboard looks like, but willof design shaping strategies to force that air back
it always look like that? The reason I ask is that in thealong the aerodynamic structures of the hoverboard
1900s a skateboard was a two-by-four with rollerbody.
skate wheels attached and a basket or crate in theThe goal is to build a hover board which can travel like
middle used to zoom down hills and crash on.a hockey puck on and near table game board; very
So, obviously the modern day skateboard is nothingfast and maneuverable. Then use that speed to gain
similar. Thus one must ask what will the Hover Boardslift from the relative wind and use deflection strategies
of the future be like and what shape will they be?for maneuvers and tricks, jumping and clearing objects.
These future hoverboards can be any shape andSince forward flight does exist also the rider will
designers being unlimited in thought must consider allemploy angle of attack strategies as well.
shapes for instance possible shapes might be;If the rider decides to slow down or turn directions
- Spade Shape - Deck of Cardsthen they will simply pivot the board into the relative
- Manta Ray Shapewhen and use that to slow down and change
- Frisbee Shapedirections. During this transitional phase flight the airflow
- Triangle Shapecoming at the bottom of the hover board will need to
- Stealth Fighter Shapebe trapped and redirected back around thru the
- Pentagon Shapeturbines rather than fighting them so the rider can
- Tear Drop Shapezoom off and the other direction.
- Oval ShapeOne other consideration to all this is that the rider's feet
- Bernoulli Flying Wing with Gates Whatever shape isor shoes will get in the way of the airflow and since
chosen it must provide the aerodynamic solutions forthey will be adjusting their feet position for stability, it
our challenges. It would be smart to stay away frommakes sense to have a raised platform where the
shapes that are too wide because as the rider turnsrider will stand away from the actual board. In doing
the sides would hit the ground and the lower the unitthis the Bernoulli Principle and venture effect might also
hovers the better the performance when in full-groundbe employed forcing the airflows to speed up and into
affect. Indeed the wings would be fatter more roundedthe intake area for the hover blowers.
and less swept with more camber. The point is weAll this is possible but it will radically change the design
are not bound by the shape of the present periodand looks of what we consider to be a modern-day
skateboard we are talking about the Future.skateboard. The futuristic design will be very cool
Additionally another important point is that we must notlooking and like nothing you have ever seen before.
waste any airflow in our design. Thus air which isWill it fly? Yes and like nothing else you have ever
blown underneath will need to be re-used thru a seriesseen either.