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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    The Griffon 2000 series is a light-weight hovercraft built in the United Kingdom by Griffon Hoverwork and used principally by military and rescue organisations...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    operate over any flat area such as frozen lakes or flat plains similar to a hovercraft. A ground-effect vehicle needs some forward velocity to produce lift dynamically...
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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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  • 124°37′57″E / 39.6147°N 124.6325°E / 39.6147; 124.6325 The Kibong-dong hovercraft base (기봉동) is a base of Korean People's Army Naval Force located in North...
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  • John (1987-10-19). "Buzz off, Wright brothers: Davis brothers build a hovercraft and fly it". The Davis Enterprise. Archived from the original on 2005-12-16...
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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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  • 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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    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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    The British Hovercraft Corporation AP1-88 is a medium-size hovercraft. In a civil configuration, the hovercraft can seat a maximum of 101 passengers,...
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