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The cross-Channel hovercraft service was withdrawn on 1 October 2000 Up to 200 cross-Channel hovercraft crew are to mark the 10th anniversary of the service being withdrawn. The ex-employees, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Sorry, this video asset has been removed. The hovercraft on Dover beach for the filming of Coast. Presenter Dr Alice Roberts is in the dark red coat. The glitz and ...
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 ...
Up to 200 cross-Channel hovercraft crew are to mark the 10th anniversary of the service being withdrawn. The ex-employees, including Captain Nic Dunn who piloted the last craft, will meet up at an ...