When Michael Mercier, founder and CEO of battery-electric hovercraft maker VonMercier, was a teenager, he had a monthly subscription to Boys’ Life. “It was the kind of magazine where you could get ...

Muskogee County has a new tool for the emergency management team and the Fort Gibson Fire Department: a hovercraft. The hovercraft will be a part of the county's water rescue equipment to help in ...

KLEBERG COUNTY, Texas — The Kleberg County Sheriff's office is looking toward a new type of technology to stop illegal crossing of the Texas-Mexico border. According to Kleberg County Sheriff Richard ...

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 ...

Rudy Heeman has, over 11 years, transformed his hovercraft into a wing-in-ground-effect vehicle. Heeman says he’s found the ideal flight altitude under the vehicle’s 7-meter wingspan to be about 1.5 ...

Want to get from New York to the Hamptons in record time? How about Boston to Nantucket? This new electric aircraft takes off and lands on water the same way a floatplane does, but flies at 180 mph ...

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 ...

Pittsburgh leaders plan to use a federal grant to buy a new hovercraft and outfit the city's two main rescue boats with new motors. City Council gave preliminary approval to the necessary legislation ...

This photo provided by Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno shows a retired Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft that was deliberately run aground because of a tear in its skirt, on Hampton Beach, N.H., on ...

While commercial hovercraft faded from everyday use, the U.S. Navy’s LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion) kept the technology ...

The Navy is proposing a 20 percent cut in its planned fleet of new hovercraft being built by Textron to bring Marine and Army forces and equipment ashore from amphibious warfare vessels. The service’s ...

Ubisoft and Ivory Tower Studios unleashed The Crew 2 onto the scene during the summer and it introduced boats and airplanes to the open-world racing mix. The ability to swap between the vehicles types ...