A hovercraft (pl.: hovercraft), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice,...
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The Tondar (Persian:تندر meaning: Thunderbolt) is a hovercraft designed and manufactured by Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy is equipped with two...
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Zubr-class LCAC (redirect from Pomornik class hovercraft)
of military hovercraft is, as of 2023 the world's largest hovercraft, with a standard full load displacement of 555 tons. The hovercraft was designed...
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SR.N4 (redirect from Mountbatten class hovercraft)
Nautical 4) hovercraft (also known as the Mountbatten class hovercraft) was a combined passenger and vehicle-carrying class of hovercraft. The type has...
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British Hovercraft Corporation (BHC) was a British hovercraft manufacturer that designed and produced multiple types of vehicles for both commercial and...
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Hovercraft was an experimental high-speed train developed in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It combined two British inventions, the hovercraft and...
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Hovercraft was an American instrumental experimental rock group that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1993. It was co-founded by its core duo of...
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Beth Liebling (category Hovercraft (band) members)
musician who co-founded the Seattle-based experimental instrumental group Hovercraft with guitarist/keyboardist/samplist Ryan Campbell ("Campbell 2000"). She...
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Westland Helicopters (redirect from Westland Hovercraft)
helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe (with their hovercraft) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961. Westland...
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Surface effect ship (redirect from Sidewall Hovercraft)
surface effect ship (SES) or sidewall hovercraft is a watercraft that has both an air cushion, like a hovercraft, and twin hulls, like a catamaran. When...
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-1.20974 The Hovercraft Museum, in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England is a museum run by a registered charity dedicated to hovercraft. The museum has...
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Hovertrain (section Tracked Hovercraft)
type of high-speed train that replaces conventional steel wheels with hovercraft lift pads, and the conventional railway bed with a paved road-like surface...
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Ground-effect train (redirect from Hovercraft train)
a ground effect train uses an air cushion; either in the manner of a hovercraft (as in hovertrains) or using the wing-in-ground-effect design. The advantages...
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Bora-class corvette (redirect from Bora Hovercraft)
service, both assigned to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. A future series of hovercraft have been planned[when?] based on this model for future production.[citation...
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passenger hovercraft company currently operating in the world since the demise of Hoverspeed. Hovertravel is now the world's oldest hovercraft operator...
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personal hovercraft is a small hovercraft normally carrying fewer than 10 passengers. The low cost makes it affordable for personal use. A hovercraft, or air-cushion...
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Oita Hovercraft is a hovercraft service operating a 33-kilometre route between the city centre of Oita city and Oita airport scheduled to resume in 2024...
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Griffon Hoverwork (redirect from Griffon Hovercraft)
Hoverwork Ltd (GHL) is a British hovercraft designer and manufacturer. It was originally founded as Griffon Hovercraft Ltd in 1976, based in Southampton...
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Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook (redirect from My hovercraft is full of eels)
resemblance to what he wants to say. Many of them are plainly bizarre ("My hovercraft is full of eels," when he is asking for matches) and become mildly sexual...
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believed to have filled with water or collapsed in places. In July 2007, a hovercraft passenger service completed a two-week trial between Portobello, Edinburgh...
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ABS Hovercraft is a British hovercraft designer and producer, founded in the early 1990s in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire. ABS Hovercraft researched the introduction...
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Hoverspeed (category Hovercraft)
developing the hovercraft, and ran six SR.N4 Mountbatten class hovercraft and one SEDAM N500 Naviplane. Hoverspeed last operated hovercraft on its Dover...
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LCAC (redirect from LCAC hovercraft)
classification symbol for the Landing Craft Air Cushion-class hovercraft LCAC(L), a light assault hovercraft used by the Royal Navy and Marines Lebed-class LCAC...
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(Saunders-Roe Nautical), a series of hovercraft produced by Saunders-Roe: SR.N1, the first modern hovercraft SR.N2, the first hovercraft to operate a commercial service...
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Landing Craft Air Cushion (Light), or LCAC(L), is a small amphibious hovercraft able to transverse both land and water. Like all amphibious landing craft...
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designed for travel across or through water bodies, such as a boat, ship, hovercraft, submersible or submarine. Historically, watercraft have been divided...
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Tuuli was a hovercraft built for the Finnish Navy. Originally intended to be the lead vessel of a class of four combat hovercraft, she was never officially...
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Christopher Cockerell (category Hovercraft)
June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell...
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Hovercraft tank, or, officially, the amphibious hovering tank (Russian: Земноводный подлетающий танк) was developed at Moscow aircraft plant #84 in the...
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The Nebuchadnezzar is a fictional hovercraft captained by Morpheus in the Matrix franchise. Its name is a Biblical reference to Nebuchadnezzar II, from...
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