source, source

No video of the successful take off, though...

Prime examples of men enlisting for the Darwin award...
I see shattered legs and bones if those clueless twits ever really try to fly that uncontrollable thing.

i would love to see it fly.

This.

It is a weapon of mass-destruction.

I'd like to take credit but I did not discover them.

I think you'd all be surprised how difficult it is to kill yourself without intending to .... Certainly a prototype like this probably increases his likelihood of dying by several orders of magnitude, but it would still be unlikely that he would die from a mishap. The most likely outcome is for him to be seriously injured in a comical way and that makes for good entertainment

LOL it's a crummy hovecraft