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Arthur is super friendly and really goes the extra mile to make sure his events are as successful as possible for everyone taking part. Hovercraft can be powered by one or more engines. Small craft, such as the SR. N6 , usually have one engine with the drive split through a gearbox. On vehicles with several engines, one usually drives the fan or impeller , which is responsible for lifting the vehicle by forcing high pressure air under the craft.
The air inflates the "skirt" under the vehicle, causing it to rise above the surface.
Additional engines provide thrust in order to propel the craft. Some hovercraft use ducting to allow one engine to perform both tasks by directing some of the air to the skirt, the rest of the air passing out of the back to push the craft forward. The British aircraft and marine engineering company Saunders-Roe built the first practical human-carrying hovercraft for the National Research Development Corporation , the SR.
N1, which carried out several test programmes in to the first public demonstration was in , including a cross-channel test run in July , piloted by Peter "Sheepy" Lamb, an ex-naval test pilot and the chief test pilot at Saunders Roe. N1 was powered by a single piston engine, driven by expelled air.
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Demonstrated at the Farnborough Airshow in , [16] it was shown that this simple craft can carry a load of up to 12 marines with their equipment as well as the pilot and co-pilot with only a slight reduction in hover height proportional to the load carried. N1 did not have any skirt, using instead the peripheral air principle that Christopher had patented.
It was later found that the craft's hover height was improved by the addition of a skirt of flexible fabric or rubber around the hovering surface to contain the air. The skirt was an independent invention made by a Royal Navy officer, C.
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Latimer-Needham , who sold his idea to Westland by then the parent of Saunders-Roe's helicopter and hovercraft interests , and who worked with Christopher to develop the idea further. The first passenger-carrying hovercraft to enter service was the Vickers VA-3 , which, in the summer of , carried passengers regularly along the north Wales coast from Moreton, Merseyside, to Rhyl. It was powered by two turboprop aero-engines and driven by propellers. During the s, Saunders-Roe developed several larger designs that could carry passengers, including the SR.
N2 , which operated across the Solent , in , and later the SR. In the, SR. Operations by Hovertravel commenced on 24 July , using the SR. N6, which carried 38 passengers. The AP and the BHT were notable as they were largely built by Hoverwork using shipbuilding techniques and materials i. In , two cross-channel passenger hovercraft services were inaugurated using SR. Hoverlloyd ran services from Ramsgate Harbour, England, to Calais , France, and Townsend Ferries also started a service to Calais from Dover, which was soon superseded by that of Seaspeed.
As well as Saunders-Roe and Vickers which combined in to form the British Hovercraft Corporation BHC , other commercial craft were developed during the s in the UK by Cushioncraft part of the Britten-Norman Group and Hovermarine based at Woolston the latter being sidewall hovercraft , where the sides of the hull projected down into the water to trap the cushion of air with normal hovercraft skirts at the bow and stern.
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N4 models, each powered by four Bristol Proteus turboshaft engines. These were both used by rival operators Hoverlloyd and Seaspeed joined to form Hoverspeed in to operate regular car and passenger carrying services across the English Channel. Hoverlloyd operated from Ramsgate , where a special hoverport had been built at Pegwell Bay, to Calais.
III had a capacity of passengers and 60 cars. These were later joined by the French-built SEDAM N Naviplane with a capacity of passengers and 45 cars; only one entered service and was used intermittently for a few years on the cross-channel service until returned to SNCF in N4 hovercraft and the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
The commercial success of hovercraft suffered from rapid rises in fuel prices during the late s and s, following conflict in the Middle East. Alternative over-water vehicles, such as wave-piercing catamarans marketed as the SeaCat in the UK until , use less fuel and can perform most of the hovercraft's marine tasks. Although developed elsewhere in the world for both civil and military purposes, except for the Solent Ryde to Southsea crossing, hovercraft disappeared from the coastline of Britain until a range of Griffon Hovercraft were bought by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Hovercraft used to ply between the Gateway of India in Mumbai and CBD Belapur and Vashi in Navi Mumbai between and , but the services were subsequently stopped due to the lack of sufficient water transport infrastructure. In Finland, small hovercraft are widely used in maritime rescue and during the rasputitsa "mud season" as archipelago liaison vehicles. It is used to rescue people from thick mud in the Weston-super-Mare area and during times of inland flooding.
It is used in the event of an aircraft ditching in the Tay estuary. Numerous fire departments around the U. The Canadian Coast Guard uses hovercraft to break light ice. Since , hovercraft have been used in aid in Madagascar by HoverAid, an international NGO who use the hovercraft to reach the most remote places on the island.
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Bethel is far removed from the Alaska road system, thus making the hovercraft an attractive alternative to the air based delivery methods used prior to introduction of the hovercraft service. Hovercraft service is suspended for several weeks each year while the river is beginning to freeze to minimize damage to the river ice surface.
The hovercraft is able to operate during the freeze-up period; however, this could potentially break the ice and create hazards for villagers using their snowmobiles along the river during the early winter. An experimental service was operated in Scotland across the Firth of Forth between Kirkcaldy and Portobello, Edinburgh , from 16 to 28 July As of [update] , the possibility of establishing a permanent service is still under consideration.
Since the channel routes abandoned hovercraft, and pending any reintroduction on the Scottish route, the United Kingdom's only public hovercraft service is that operated by Hovertravel between Southsea Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight. From the s, several commercial lines were operated in Japan, without much success.
Hovercraft are still manufactured in the UK, near to where they were first conceived and tested, on the Isle of Wight. They can also be chartered for a wide variety of uses including inspections of shallow bed offshore wind farms and VIP or passenger use. A typical vessel would be a Tiger IV or a Griffon. They are light, fast, road transportable and very adaptable with the unique feature of minimising damage to environments.
First applications of the hovercraft in military use was with the SR. This unit carried out trials on the SR. N1 from Mk1 through Mk5 as well as testing the SR. The was deployed by the UK in Iraq. The hovercraft's inventor, Sir Christopher Cockerell , claimed late in his life that the Falklands War could have been won far more easily had the British military shown more interest in hovercraft. N5 as the Bell SK This was used in both the UK SR. N5 curved deck configuration and later with modified flat deck, gun turret and grenade launcher designated the PACV.
N5 hovercraft in Vietnam. They saw action primarily in the Plain of Reeds. One was destroyed in early and another in August of that same year, after which the unit was disbanded. The only remaining U. N5 hovercraft is currently on display in the Army Transport Museum in Virginia. Developed and tested in the mids, the LACV was used by the US Army to transport military cargo in logistics-over-the-shore operations from the early s thru the mid s. The Soviet Union was the world's largest developer of military hovercraft. The Soviet Union was also one of the first nations to use a hovercraft, the Bora , as a guided missile corvette , though this craft possessed rigid, non-inflatable sides.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, most Soviet military hovercraft fell into disuse and disrepair. Only recently has the modern Russian Navy begun building new classes of military hovercraft. The Iranian Navy operates multiple British made [29] [30] and some Iranian produced hovercraft. Iran has equipped the Tondar with mid-range missiles, machine guns and retrievable reconnaissance drones.