Project: Thunderpants (Director Peter Hewitt) Internet Movie Database

Script called for a "fart" powered hovercraft for two ten year old boys (Ron Weasley from the "Harry Potter" series) to fly down a 100 metre course with various problems, failures and loss of control along the way. As a real hovercraft would be too difficult to control a three wheeled electric vehicle was built with a hydraulic platform on top that could spin and tilt.

This was an extremely short build but Rick got the satisfaction of "piloting" it himself from underneath and managed to "fly" blind through a set of finish line posts only fifty centimetres wider than the craft after covering 100 metres of the course.

The vehicle was also fitted with CO₂ cylinders which the boys opereated to create jet blasts and leaking mechanism effects.

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