The Hovercraft: Photographs from the Archives of the World's Only Hovercraft Museum

by Jim Gray

Lee-on-the-Solent is synonymous with planes and seaplanes, but it is also the home of another, slightly more unusual form of transport - the hovercraft.After the first cross-channel crossing by a hovercraft in 1959, there was a revolution in design and development. Within a decade, the mighty SRN4, capable of carrying 400 passengers and sixty cars across the English Channel in less than forty minutes, had arrived. As the commercial hovercraft thrived,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445672766
• ISBN13: 9781445672762
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"