Nothing like a flying disk 18 feet in diameter going over ... The ground effect is well understood by anyone who has seen a hovercraft working. The Conada effect is a little more obscure.

My father worked for Saunders-Roe during the time of The Princess Flying-Boat. My 5-year apprenticeship was when the company had become The British Hovercraft Corporation. My brother-in-law served ...

Hovercraft makes her maiden voyage across the ... which hovers just above the water on a cushion of air and was dubbed a 'man-made flying saucer'. He first tested his 'hover' theory using a ...

French pilot, Bruno Vezzoli, managed to cross the English Channel in a flying car. The single-seat dune buggy - named Pegasus - made the 36-mile journey from an abandoned runway in France ...