{"id":90184,"date":"2024-10-23T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90184"},"modified":"2024-07-05T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T17:08:29","slug":"the-last-surviving-giant-passenger-hovercraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/23\/the-last-surviving-giant-passenger-hovercraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Surviving Giant Passenger Hovercraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x5jmrW1HvMQ?si=Qx7ZoCw3IzVHJ14V\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tim Traveller<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 2, 2024<\/p>\n<p>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 &mdash; three times faster than anything else on the water. So why don&#8217;t we have anything like them any more?<\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO<br \/>\nThe Hovercraft Museum: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovercraft-museum.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hovercraft-museum.org\/<\/a><br \/>\nThe museum&#8217;s &#8220;Support Us&#8221; page, if you&#8217;d like to help them out: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEx1VjZZWktMY25XX0VneHJKLTJLRkhqMHVlZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttaW9PVi1NZjJNcGhWVzVNbkxCMEJDMmRiVnZ2NEpiRmdYQ252ZS1wV0piWXBsRjVzekpXbUlOTUxidW5GbVVZZUlpU2c3eG1xQnF6MnNrOEU0ZFRMa01vcF9kSUFYU2tMUGRLcVhIbDlLeW12NjVUNA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hovercraft-museum.org%2Fsupport-us%2F&#038;v=x5jmrW1HvMQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hovercraft-museum.org\/sup&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &mdash; three times faster than anything else on the water. So why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,15],"tags":[311,1416,686,897,1298,45],"class_list":["post-90184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-technology","tag-1960s","tag-englishchannel","tag-futurism","tag-hovercraft","tag-museum","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nsA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90185,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184\/revisions\/90185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}