Hovercraft

[Bianco2564]

My Dad was having a tidy out of some cupboards and found a scrapbook I made of a family holiday we went on in 1978.

We went on a day trip to Calais on one of the SR.N4 hovercraft.

All I remember is when it started of going up like being in a lift and how incredibly noisy it was.

I pasted the ticket in the scrapbook, £32.50 return for 2 adults and 3 kids

Never see the likes of them again.

 

 

 

And talking of machines we will never see again reminded me that my older brother went on a pleasure flight on Concorde.

I'm envious he did that as that would have been an experience of a lifetime.

[Guest Richzx6r]

But does it have eels in?

[onesea]

After this I must do the iow one just to say I have been on one..

[fastbob]

Affix did a kit of it .

[Mr Fro]

You can go down to Sandwich and see the apron (or whatever it's called), it's still there.

[Guest]

I remember going on the hovercraft to France as a kid. Cramped and like you say very noisy but still brilliant.

[Bianco2564]

Affix did a kit of it .

 

I think we had one of those.

Spitfire was better.

[fastbob]

Put guns on it . And some rocket launchers . Yeah !

[S-Westerly]

Saw a US Marines one of those in the Persian Gulf a few years back. Their assault ships use them instead of old fashioned landing craft. Stealthy they are not as you can hear them coming from miles away. Bloody fast though.

[Old-codger]

I went on Concorde on a free junket once and the best bit is the take off and then the landing the force was amazing but my god it was cramped in there.

[husoi]

When I went to this museum I got into the concorde, I don't think I would like to fly in it. so little space. Compared to a 777 or a 380 is a flying cupboard

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/concorde/

[Six30]

stiil get Hovercraft to isle of white .

[gogs01]

stiil get Hovercraft to isle of white .

 

From where ?

[Bender]

https://www.hovertravel.co.uk/timetables/

[gogs01]

Southsea ?

I used to watch hovercraft landing there when I was stationed at Eastney Barracks - in 1971.

Didn't think they were still running (flying ?, sailing ?)

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[M620]

“I pasted the ticket in the scrapbook, £32.50 return for 2 adults and 3 kids

Never see the likes of them again”

Not quite Calais but you could recreate the experience for almost the same price https://www.hovertravel.co.uk/special-offers/30-family-day-return/