IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Air Cushion Vehicles Collection ...

The Navy said it was a plane, not a boat. The Air Force said it was a boat, not a plane. The hovercraft is an ACV (Air Cushion Vehicle). Seriously, that’s the technical term. The inventor of the ACV ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sir Christopher Cockerell usually ...

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 ...

Textron (NYSE: TXT) will obtain additional materials needed to build landing craft air cushion vehicles under a five-year, $314.3M contract modification from the U.S. Navy. The company will use the ...

Textron (NYSE: TXT) has been awarded a potential $174 contract modification to produce additional landing craft air cushion vehicles for the U.S. Navy. SSC vehicles are designed to replace the service ...

The 65-ft. landing craft that skittered across the water and up a Lake Erie beach last week looked like a product out of science fiction, a warship from some future conflict. Huge fans to port and ...

U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) engineers in Florida are finding that finger skirt design improvements and a composite/aluminum hybrid lift-fan design are feasible ...

A critical performance issue in the development of any air cushion restraint system is the dichotomy that exists between the inflation rate required to meet the 30 mph frontal, rigid barrier restraint ...

Last time we checked in on [Ivan Miranda] he was putting a drill press on the Internet. Lately, he has been trying to 3D print a hovercraft with some success. He made four attempts before arriving at ...