Frustrated with what they see as stagnation in the evolution of hovercraft design over recent decades, cousins Michael Mercier and Chris Jones have teamed up in an effort to bring the personal ...
On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and ...
The humble hovercraft has been around since the 1950s, floating drivers over land, sand and water alike on cushions of air trapped under flexible skirts. While they're not a common sight, they're ...
When it was reported last month that the last two Dover to Boulogne hovercraft were set to be scrapped, it was hard to imagine that the Princess Margaret and Princess Anne Hoverspeed vessels had once ...
It's 60 years since the British inventor Christopher Cockerell demonstrated the principles of the hovercraft using a cat food tin and a vacuum cleaner. Great things were promised for this mode of ...
Hovercraft were a quick way to zip across the world's waterways but were noisy and expensive to operate. Could they be about to enjoy a second wind? The 12.30pm midweek hovercraft departure from ...
PLOVERS THEIR. IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT YOU SEE A HOVERCRAFT AT HAMPTON BEACH, BUT TODAY BEACHGOERS WERE IN FOR A SPECTACLE UP HERE. THAT’S PAULA ROWLEY’S WARM NEW HAMPSHIRE WELCOME FOR A CREW OF ...
From its shipyard just past the floodwall in New Orleans East, Textron Systems designs, builds and tests the latest in hovercraft technology. Workers there take in 40-foot-long sheets of raw aluminum, ...
The hovercraft that has long been at the center of a national debate over cutting a road through an Alaska wilderness will soon go up for sale. But that won't mark the end of one village's saga to ...
Bay Area commuters may have another way to get to work on the horizon: hovercraft. Especially for those living or working in the South Bay, San Jose and Silicon Valley. It sounds futuristic, but it's ...
On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and ...
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