I took the photo on my new phone and because I'd turned the screen brightness right down to save battery power, it meant that I couldn't see which button I was pressing. As a result, I took a (very!) short video of the hovercraft leaving (you can see it rising up as the curtain is inflated, though):
Cool. How far off the ground can those hover? I didn't know hovercraft were 'reality'. Are they mainly for land or sea?
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They don't really go off the ground. In the photos, that's them moving, so that's as high as they go.
DeleteThey're used for rescues - often from quicksand/mud - when the water's not very deep. They're perfectly happy going over water (there used to be a large one that did cross-Channel trips from England to France and back) but are ideal (for us from a rescue point of view) for when there's not much water.
The only restriction is that the sea can't be too high - it has to be reasonably flat.
So, the Dover-Calais hovercraft route has been stopped?
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ReplyDeleteI saw a show on how those are made.
They are really something else.
Calma
Impressive. :)
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