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I love Christopher Cockerell and his momentum curtain.
I hate that we don't have personal hovercrafts and lament that the only journey by hovercraft in the UK is currently to the Isle of Wight.
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This Hovercraft is the bane of my life on weekend mornings (and summer afternoons). It goes so slowely into the landing at Southsea and really gets in the way of our rowing race pieces. It always arrives at the wrong time, and just dilly dalys there's causing a wash and making a huge gust.
/Hates hovercraft's, but would love to own one of those small ones.
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Hovercrafts give me a powerful hard-on.
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While hovercraft are indeed impressive.
For me there lacks a direct transfer of energy that is prevalent in power boats and performance cars and planes/jets.
I mean an air boat is a boat pushed by air right?
Maybe somebody needs to make a nuts jet engine (not propeller) powered version but I think there is a problem with surface tension and hydrodynamic speed using an inflatable air cushion?
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I ride passed the Lee on solent hovercraft museum twice a day, I'll have to get some photos tomorrow.
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I did the same as a kid.
I didn't like it.
Sitting 9 abreast it wasn't possible to see anything out of the cloudy acrylic windows.
A boring 30 minutes for a 9 year old.
Would consider avoiding further hovercraft travel.
Having said that, during my tenure at The Science Museum, we were exploring one of the Museum owned hangars at RAF Wroughton, and we stumbled across Christopher Cockerell's original.
We got inside the cabin. It was dark. I was about to ignite my Bic lighter to enable us to see. But then I thought, 'It smells a bit of petrol in here........'
That would've been good......
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I'm confused, is this a plane or a hovercraft?
The homemade flying hovercraft - YouTube
Universal Hovercraft - UH-18SPW Hoverwingâ„¢ Flying Ground Effect Hovercraft - YouTube