OITA—After a 15-year hiatus, hovercraft are making a comeback as Oita Prefecture prepares to reopen what will be Japan’s only passenger route for the watercraft as early as December. The hovercraft ...

In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushion ...

When your budget is limitless, so are your entertainment options. Just because regular folk have to choose between getting their kicks on land, on water or up in the air doesn’t mean you have to as ...

There's something otherworldly about hovercraft. The way they glide over water and land, usually with billows of spray or sand, is pure mechanized spectacle. There was a time when it seemed hovercraft ...

On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and ...

Why bother choosing between an aircraft and a vessel when you can have them both in Hammacher Schlemmer's futuristic flying hovercraft that can travel over land and water? This hovercraft soars up to ...

PLOVERS THEIR. IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT YOU SEE A HOVERCRAFT AT HAMPTON BEACH, BUT TODAY BEACHGOERS WERE IN FOR A SPECTACLE UP HERE. THAT’S PAULA ROWLEY’S WARM NEW HAMPSHIRE WELCOME FOR A CREW OF ...

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We think of hovercraft as a modern conveyance. After all, any vision of the future usually includes hovercraft or flying cars along with all the other things we imagine in the future. So when do you ...

On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and ...