Airboats Manufacturers

Airboat is a flat-bottomed punts powered by a propeller attached to an automobile or aircraft engine. It is also called as fan boats. The propeller has the typical shape and size of an airplane propeller and so requires a large metal cage to protect passengers and other users. The flat bottom allows air boats to navigate easily through shallow swamps and marshes as well as in canals, rivers and lakes, it can also be used on frozen lakes. The driver sits high on a platform to improve visibility and to permit spotting floating obstacles and animals in the path of the boat. Steering is accomplished by swiveling vertical rudders positioned in the propeller wash in the very rear of the airboat, so control is a function of current, wind, water depth and propeller thrust.