Hovercrafts operated at 60mph (96kmph) from Dover and Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate, from 1968, getting millions of people to ...

15:10, Sun, Mar 30, 2025 Updated: 15:11, Sun, Mar 30, 2025 A UK city could become the second place in the world to run a timetabled hovercraft service in what officials have described as an "exciting" ...

Did you see a hovercraft around Chichester Harbour this summer? An unusual sight, the hovercraft was on a special mission – to map the harbour’s seagrass meadows. Did you know with a Digital ...

There's something otherworldly about hovercraft. The way they glide over water and land, usually with billows of spray or sand, is pure mechanized spectacle. There was a time when it seemed hovercraft ...

One of the ex-Royal Marines hovercraft that has been sold to the Pakistan Navy. (DE&S) UK's Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) has sold three hovercraft that were formerly in service with the Royal ...

A HAMPSHIRE hovercraft manufacturer has landed its biggest ever contract to make its floating machines for the Indian coastguard. Southampton-based Griffon Hoverwork won a £34m contract with the ...

Hovercrafts, designed to operate on both land and water and be masters of neither, are odd little beasts. They've got odd performance characteristics and ponderous handling. So that means when you ...

An RNLI search-and-rescue hovercraft has returned home after undergoing maintenance. The Hunstanton Flyer made the six-hour journey from Poole in Dorset, where it has been undergoing maintenance since ...

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 ...

FLINTSHIRE residents are being urged to volunteer for the Hovercraft Search andŠRescue team. Hovercraft Search and Rescue UK is a registered charity which aims to provide humanitarian assistance in ...

A DAD who swapped life on a farm to search oil fields in the Middle East for unexploded bombs is hosting the first round of a national competition at his farm this weekend. Father-of-two Charlie Peach ...