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Yes, and that Rhino definitely isn't suspended in a magnetic field anyway, it's using hand-wavium-powered gravitic repulsors or some-such. Most planets don't even HAVE magnetic fields, so that whole idea is just right out, impossible physics aside.

LunaHound - don't be disappointed. This is how it has to work, and here's why:

Assuming you have some magic gravitic repulsors, you still can't propel yourself forward or sideways by changing the strength of the repulsors on different parts of your vehicle. You're assuming this would work like a helicopter, where you change the distribution of lift on the rotor disk, and the angle of the rotor disk, to push yourself in whichever direction you want. This only works because air is all around you, and you can generate a force by pushing against it in any direction.

Gravity is a vector pointing straight to the center of mass of the planet. Assuming you can work against the effects of gravity using your magic repulsor, you can generate a force in one direction: up. Whatever angle your repulsor is at, there is no horizontal component of gravity to work against (unlike the air a helicopter moves through). So you can't generate any thrust for forward or lateral travel.

Even if you vary the strength of the repulsors along the length or width of your vehicle, there is no horizontal component to the force. All you end up doing is moving different parts of your vehicle up or down relative to one another, i.e. pitching or banking. Eventually you'd just flip yourself over, but you wouldn't go anywhere.

So it's not Jetsons. Surprisingly for 40k, it actually makes perfect sense.

/aerospace engineer