Quotulatiousness

October 23, 2024

The Last Surviving Giant Passenger Hovercraft

Filed under: Britain, History, Technology — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tim Traveller
Published Jul 2, 2024

In early 1968, Britain launched a revolutionary new form of sea transport: the giant SRN4-class hovercraft. They are the largest passenger hovercraft ever built, and they could fly between England and France in just 30 minutes — three times faster than anything else on the water. So why don’t we have anything like them any more?

MORE INFO
The Hovercraft Museum: https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/
The museum’s “Support Us” page, if you’d like to help them out: https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/sup…

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