In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushion ...
OITA—After a 15-year hiatus, hovercraft are making a comeback as Oita Prefecture prepares to reopen what will be Japan’s only passenger route for the watercraft as early as December. The hovercraft ...
The hovercraft concept is not a new one, having floated drivers across land, sand and water since the 1950s. But 70 years on, now petrol heads finally have a reason to celebrate the vehicle, because ...
A NEW Ferrari-style hovercraft claims to be the quietest on the market. The £162k Arosa electric hovercraft, which is designed to carry three people on water or land, should be available from mid-2023 ...
It was the fastest way to get passengers across the English Channel from Kent to France for decades. Hovercrafts operated at 60mph (96kmph) from Dover and Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate, from 1968, ...
When you think of a vehicle that can do it all- water, land, ice, snow and more- the hovercraft often comes to mind. And while they might not be ubiquitous, hovercraft catch the imagination of many a ...
For three decades the hovercraft was the fastest and most thrilling way to cross the English channel. And back in 1959 The Engineer was present at the birth of a vehicle so new and hard to categorise ...
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Museum volunteers who fear the last remaining cross-Channel hovercraft are on the verge of being destroyed have started a petition to save them. The Princess Margaret and Princess Anne Hoverspeed ...