hovercraft

The hovercraft travelled first over the water, then mounted the beach, climbed up the dune and sat down on a road.

The only one hovercraft was turned out a day.

A hovercraft is like a boat, but it does not float directly on the water: it floats on a cushion of air.

Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

Think of the great machines of war, and the hovercraft is perhaps not the first that springs to mind.

The hovercraft will be deployed on the new Type 071 landing platform dock (LPD), which can carry up to four hovercraft.

Hovercraft will therefore be able to embark and disembark easily.

A big hovercraft can carry two or three hundred passengers and thirty or forty cars.

This hovercraft has ducted fans which provide lift and propulsion instead of the sometimes-dangerous rotor blades of other flying machines.

And a modern hovercraft can carry an Abrams tank, America's heaviest, at a speed of 40 knots.

in that the Hovercraft can move straight upwards like a helicopter.

This spray was thrown up from the sea when the air rushed downwards under the hovercraft and struck the water.

The hovercraft proved to be a failure mainly because of its power system.

Which one of the following statements is TRUE of the hovercraft?

the term "ship" covers any kind of ship, vessel, barge, lighter or hovercraft, excluding ships of war.

various types of hovercraft have appeared and taken up regular service.

Hovercraft is safe as houses, even if the engine broke down there's no danger of sinking.

These days many people take their cars across the Channel on a hovercraft.

The engineer showed us the diagram of the hovercraft.

the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

Usually, on the first journey, the pilot on board a hovercraft, has to endure the discomfort caused by the spray which comes on board.

Three hovercraft are made a day.

So you want your very own hovercraft?

People thought that in 2000, everything would be computerized and we would travel in hovercraft.

One can travel to Holland by boat , by hovercraft or by air.

Set the hovercraft on a level table.

A Hovercraft rides on a cushion of air.

In addition, the rationality of the design method of the hovercraft based on similarity is discussed.

Hovercraft hover, or rideon a cushion of air.

He eventually received funding and in 1958 produced the SR. N1, the world's first passenger hovercraft.

A Lloyd's policy form of insurance on an air cushion vessel hovercraft

Viewing the Sonic Chair from the rear reminds us of a hovercraft engine, and gives the impression of speed. . . very attractive

Application of Air Compressed Refrigeration in the Gas Turbine Hovercraft

The driving technique of the full hovering hovercraft

Research on Simulation of Lift and Propulsion Control for Hovercraft

It can become a 'flying fruit-bowl', carrying bananas from the plantations to the ports; giant hovercraft liners could span the Atlantic;

giant hovercraft liners could span the Atlantic;

Review and Prospect of Hovercraft

The hovercraft is particularly useful in large areas with poor communications such as Africa or Australia;