hovercraft

     

A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle (ACV), is an amphibious vehicle or craft, esigned to travel over any sufficiently smooth surface supported by a cushion of slowly moving, high-pressure air, ejected downwards against the surface close below it.

Trivia about hovercraft

  • The SR.N4 MK III, one of the largest of these, crosses the English Channel on a cushion of air
  • The British SRN 4 type of this machine was designed to ferry people & cars across the English Channel
  • These air-cushion vehicles that were "full of eels" in a Monty Python sketch first crossed the Channel in 1959
  • The Princess Anne is one of these unusual water vehicles