(Update 11/11/2024 Sorry if a few image thumbnails and galleries are a bit buggy, I'm updating the coding at the moment - James)
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The following pages contain over 3,000 images, kindly allowed to be put on this site by the Hovercraft Museum Trust (http://www.hovercraft-museum.org)
The British Hovercraft Corporation AP1-88, including conceptual roles, scale models and sea trials, plus lifeboat testing.
In service with Hovertravel, Hoverwest, Scandinavian SAS
The craft of Bell hovercraft, including the Viking and Voyageur
The BH7, including technical drawings, in service with the Royal Navy, various marks of the craft, and its move to The Hovercraft Museum
The various craft, some existing and some purely theoretical, of the British Hovercraft Corporation
From concept diagrams through to the first hovercraft flight across the English Channel
Diagrams and its brief spell in service as a passenger hovercraft
Diagrams, construction and its time in passenger service
Including its conceptual roles (e.g. Military service) and systems diagrams, various marks and the prototypes, and key times in its history
A pictorial history through the lives of The Princess Margaret, The Princess Anne, Swift, Sure, Sir Christopher and The Prince of Wales hovercraft
Including its development at Cowes (Isle of Wight) under the British Hovercraft Corporation, and its use as a military vehicle, in the Tropics, in the USA, with the Canadian Coastguard, and as a passenger ferry.
Diagrams, its building, use with the Canadian Coastguard, passenger services with Clyde Hoverferries, Hoverlloyd, Hovertravel, Seaspeed, Townsend, and use in the military and industry.
The CC1, CC2, CC4, CC5, CC6, CC7 and concepts of hovercraft terminals by Cushioncraft
The Denny D1 and Denny D2 hovercraft, including layout diagrams of the D2
Some craft by Griffon (now Griffon Hoverwork) including the launch of the Griffon 3000
The Hoverhawk HA5 in operation and at the Hovercraft Museum
The hoverdevelopment HD1 and HD2, including the latter at The Hovercraft Museum
The Bora surface effect ship, Gus, Lebed, LCAC and Royal Navy hovercraft including the Vosper Thornycroft VT2
Including the Aist, Dophin, Raduga, Ryis, Tsaplya, Utenok D3 and the biggest hovercraft in the world, the Zubr class
French manufacturer SEDAM's N10, N300 and the (in?)famous N500 Naviplane
The hovercraft of Vickers, including the HLR, VA1, VA2, VA3, VA3b and conceptual VA4
Concepts and real hovercraft (VT1, VT2) of Vosper Thornycroft
Hovercraft by Ford, Irbis, and models such as the Lubricat, Midget and Winfield, also the Tiger 12 and Skima craft
Hovercraft at the 2004 hovershow at the Hovercraft Museum in Gosport, at the HMS Daedalus site
Boulogne, Calais, Dover and Pegwell Bay hoverport, the great man Sir Christopher Cockerell, and some diagrams about sidewalls and skirts