After a successful run with the radio controlled model, [James] set out to build a hovercraft big enough to carry a human. The resulting hovercraft was definitely enough to take a human for a spin ...

This pedal-powered hovercraft, built by a flight group at the University of London, is constructed out of the absolute lightest materials possible (carbon fiber, glass cloth, styrofoam ...

So when do you think the hovercraft first appeared? The 1960s? The 1950s? Maybe it was a World War II development from the 1940s? Turns out, a human-powered hovercraft was dreamed up (but not ...

Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Showcasing over 60 hovercraft and boasting a library containing everything anyone would want to know about the novel vessels, the ...

All it took was a couple of leaf blowers, a sheet of plywood, black paint and some very late nights for James Upham of Moncton to build the first "human hockey puck hovercraft." Upham is in charge of ...

Thus, through a combination of eccentricity and genius, Sir Christopher Cockerell invented the hovercraft, in a shed, in a boatyard, in Norfolk. For years afterwards, the invention was kept top secret ...