In the 1960s, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned an aircraft unlike anything else—a flying machine that could take off vertically, skim across water, and detect submarines. The result was the ...

Rich Weissensel is a bit of a DeLorean nut. Not only does the guy love the cars and own several, he’s turned many of them into some of the wildest vehicles you could imagine. Among his collection of ...

Eureka Naval Craft is introducing its suite of high-speed AIRCAT (air cushion catamarans) surface effect ships (SES), already ...

The group all entered the water to try to make it back, but only two were successful. The other three returned to the island. RNLI Hunstanton dispatched its hovercraft, which flew to the island and ...

It was a new kind of machine that could travel almost anywhere, on land, water, or just about any other surface. The first prototype hovercraft, designed by British engineer Christopher Cockerell ...

The Isle of Wight and the Royal Maritime Hotel recently hosted ten (10) group travel organisers on a FAM trip to Portsmouth ...

Hunstanton RNLI received reports of three people trapped on Scolt Head Island, near Brancaster, after they had been cut off ...

commonly known as a hovercraft, travels by gliding over a cushion of air. This design allows it to move smoothly across various surfaces, such as water, sand, ice and asphalt, with minimal friction.

Consider the hovercraft. It is literally a feat of biblical proportions to walk on water. But most of us have never seen a hovercraft in real life, and the vehicles haven’t had a big impact on ...