Now in Glorious 4K! UK passenger hovercraft from Calais France to Dover. Hoverspeed. Wow.

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Жыл бұрын

Not planned but I ended up coming back on the Hoverspeed one trip. I have crossed the channel on ferry, hydrofoil (pretty much everyone on the boat puked but me) and of course the Chunnel but this trip was the most fun. Too bad it ended, it was worth the 98 quid!
From wikipedia: The Princess Anne (built 1968): built by British Hovercraft Corporation for Seaspeed and stretched in 1977. Transferred to Hoverspeed on creation of the company in 1981. Withdrawn in 2000. Currently at the Hovercraft Museum at HMS Daedalus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverspeed

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@MrAckers75 2 ай бұрын

No more hovercraft and no more Concorde …..we truly have gone backwards

@garelalexandre3252 2 ай бұрын

we have eurostar , its something that tunnel

@davidwebb4904 2 ай бұрын

Riding the hovercraft wasn’t a particularly pleasant experience. It was noisy, and you couldn’t see out the windows at all.

@garelalexandre3252 2 ай бұрын

@@davidwebb4904was faster than ferries , it was the main goal

@adamfrbs9259 4 ай бұрын

The size of that is astonishing, I had no idea it was THAT big. Awesome!

@JamesBoz 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. I rode this as a young child and it was an amazing, futuristic adventure!

@toddschmidt206 Жыл бұрын

I made that trip in the early 80’s on a hovercraft they were very cool

@MrPants1970 3 ай бұрын

Wow I have saved this, must be the only 4k video of these wonderful craft in existence? ❤

@plopzzzzzz 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this It takes me back Was so impressive ❤

@redkelly1188 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting Its history

@spider23000 2 ай бұрын

So weird. I was well aware of these hovercraft as a kid, I remember my father telling me about going on one in the 70s. But I always assumed they'd been consigned to the history books years before. I watched this video today, heard Everything but the Girl playing at the end, and assumed the video was fake because that song was too recent. Didn't realise until today that they remained in service right up to 2000. I was 14 then. Wish I'd have known.

@BaylyFamily 2 ай бұрын

Great comment. Thanks.

@andrewfalkingham4206 2 ай бұрын

brings back memories

@beetrooot1137 Ай бұрын

WOW AMASING

@user-nr4vj5mh8r 6 ай бұрын

Lush makes me blush

@alexandrealvesdasilva6040 2 ай бұрын

Pena que nunca vi um desses no Brasil. 😥🇧🇷

@elmehdiboumlic6565 2 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@lordstevens121 2 ай бұрын

Amazing sea craft. Capacity, scale and fuel costs killed it.

@spct566 Жыл бұрын

When did u record that?

@BaylyFamily Жыл бұрын

Fall of 99. I think they stopped the service in 2000.

@Gargamoth Ай бұрын

I really hope engineers are working on an evolution of this hovercraft idea. Smallermore powerful motors, sturdier skirt or a no skirt design.

@lifeofgamer2539 Ай бұрын

A no skirt design would make it worse That's why they added skirts to hovercraft in the first place

@Gargamoth Ай бұрын

@@lifeofgamer2539 More R&D May lead to new technologies that enable a no skirt design.

@lifeofgamer2539 Ай бұрын

@@Gargamoth that r&d came in form of a skirt to fix the issues of a skirtless design. I would love to see more hovercraft designs but skirtless hovercrafts are just impractical And not efficient.

@santana835 Ай бұрын

Sapão

@EVCarGuy Жыл бұрын

That didn't look like a smooth/comfortable ride at all!

@BaylyFamily Жыл бұрын

A little bumpy yes. A fun adventure yes.

@dfolt 6 ай бұрын

From my judgement, the crossings were only smooth at sea state one. I was on one crossing from Dover to Calais that lasted 90 minutes because of the sea. Some of the passengers on that particular flight swore they'd never again board a hovercraft 😂. Furthermore, the inherent rumbling of the machinery always created a basic level of vibration, rattling etc. But it nevertheless was an exciting form of transport!