I went to see the hovercraft that has been revived in Oita. Seeing it in person, what I found interesting once again is that a hovercraft is not just a "rare vehicle," but a collection of technologies ...

A Griffon Marine 2000TD hovercraft. Three of the craft were purchased by the Finnish Border Guard in December 2025. (Griffon Marine) The Finnish Border Guard (Rajavartiolaitos: FBG) ordered three ...

Abstract: In this paper we propose discontinuous control laws to globally stabilize a target position for a hovercraft. Equations of motion of the hovercraft are derived through a kinematic model ...

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, ...

A reader wonders why we rarely see smiles on the catwalk — and if that’s always been the case in fashion. By Vanessa Friedman Why do runway models always look miserable? They always look as if they ...

Tarun is a gearhead who has been working on motorcycles for over 25 years and riding them even longer. A certified Harley-Davidson, Kawasaki, and Ducati mechanic, he loves working on motorcycles and ...

Griffon has already delivered a similar 12000TD to Hovertravel (pictured below). The British transport company uses the craft to ferry passengers between Southsea in Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of ...

Soldiers suspended in the air in moon boots and sniping unsuspecting targets on the ground might sound like a battle tactic from a future war, but such a concept for an Army hovercraft actually traces ...