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

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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 Withdrawn in 2000.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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@jm252 5 дней назад

1975 I went on "Swift" and "Sure" Amazing Journeys on both Hovercraft! Fond memories!

@adamfrbs9259 6 месяцев назад

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

@JamesBoz 7 месяцев назад

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

@toddschmidt206 Год назад

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

@mjwmontgomery Месяц назад

Been on it many times as a child.

@plopzzzzzz 8 месяцев назад

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

@MrPants1970 5 месяцев назад

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

@spider23000 4 месяца назад

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 4 месяца назад

Great comment. Thanks.

@redkelly1188 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for posting Its history

@andrewfalkingham4206 4 месяца назад

brings back memories

@MrAckers75 4 месяца назад

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

@garelalexandre3252 4 месяца назад

we have eurostar , its something that tunnel

@davidwebb4904 4 месяца назад

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

@garelalexandre3252 4 месяца назад

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

@noelht1 21 день назад

And no more going to the moon

@Harrimoto 12 дней назад

OH GIVE OVER !!! What tripe

@beetrooot1137 4 месяца назад

WOW AMASING

@noelht1 21 день назад

If I win the lottery, I’m going to get that one out of the museum restore it back to serve and I’m going to fly down to North Sentinel Island, where those tribes people are who haven’t seen any outside people. But I’m gonna paint it up like a massive Dragon first. Just for the Lolz.

@user-nr4vj5mh8r 8 месяцев назад

Lush makes me blush

@envitech02 9 дней назад

So dangerous to stand near the hovercraft when it's about to park. That thing can kick out small stones that can kill people. That said, this is a amazing sight. Along with the Concorde, we have truly regressed.

@alessandroandreuccetti-sx5zg 14 дней назад

we got 4K SRN4 footage before gta 6

@winnied87 25 дней назад

So very intetesting! It combined an aircraft with sea transport. I won't lie I've gotten an intrusive idea about that balloon part popping. What if it deflated? Would the hovercraft navigable as a ferry?

@alexandrealvesdasilva6040 4 месяца назад

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

@elmehdiboumlic6565 4 месяца назад

👍👍👍👍

@lordstevens121 4 месяца назад

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

@gwxstudio1 Год назад

When did u record that?

@BaylyFamily Год назад

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

@Gargamoth 3 месяца назад

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

@Oddoneout22 3 месяца назад

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

@Gargamoth 3 месяца назад

@@Oddoneout22 More R&D May lead to new technologies that enable a no skirt design.

@Oddoneout22 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@EVCarGuy Год назад

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

@BaylyFamily Год назад

A little bumpy yes. A fun adventure yes.

@dfolt 8 месяцев назад

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!