Hovercraft look like the perfect vehicle, fast, amphibious, and able to glide from water to land without a dock. This breaks down how the air cushion and skirt actually work, and why fuel use, control ...

The concept of the hovercraft has been around for longer than the car itself has. According to a bill submitted to the UK Parliament in 1968, one of the earliest recorded instances of an air cushion ...

We're all familiar with cars, planes, trains and boats as being the most popular forms of transport the world over. But while boats and ferries have long proven their worth at crossing large bodies of ...

From its shipyard just past the floodwall in New Orleans East, Textron Systems designs, builds and tests the latest in hovercraft technology. Workers there take in 40-foot-long sheets of raw aluminum, ...