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History Hovercraft Timeline 8 - Timeline Help
History hovercraft timeline 8 of 8 from 1993 to 2007 at Timeline Help.
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- 2007 | Hoverspeed Seacats Folkestone - Boulogne.
The Japan Defense Agency uses a Landing Craft Air Cushion - LCAC - to provide food, supplies and medicines to citizens after the Kobe earthquake.
September 15 The Princess Anne SR-N4 Mk3 set a new cross-English Channel record of 22 minutes.
September 18 World's Hovercraft Speed Record is set by the American Bob Windt with 85.87 mph - 137.4 km/h.
The Sir Christopher is now in use as a store in Dover.
The Japan Defense Agency gets four LCACs.
Hoverspeed Seacat route Dover - Ostend.
Japanes carrier Osumi starts using a air-cushioned landing craft.
October The Princess Margaret is damaged at sea.
U.S. Postal Service starts using the Hoverwork AP.1-88 for cargo and passengers flights in Alaska.
The Unites Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor UNTAET uses air cushioned landing crafts for transporting supplies and food to the cities of Dili, Suai and Oecussi. And there are much more practical applications, you will discover it in this history hovercraft timeline 8.
The Seacat service by Hoverspeed at the route Newhaven - Dieppe.
June 1 Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell dies, at the age of 88.
The Finnish Navy uses the FNS Tuuli 10 of the Tuuli combat hovercraft class.
U.K. Royal Marines uses the Griffon 2000TDX in Iraq.
U.S. Army uses the Bell SK-10 air-cushioned landing craft.
The Hellenic Navy uses the world’s largest Russian-designed Zubr class or Project 1232.2 class military air-cushioned landing crafts.
October All Hoverspeeds' SR-N4s are taken out of services.
The Finnish Navy constructs the experimental missile attack Tuuli hovercraft class.
Mackley Air Cushion Equipment constructs the hoverbarges Sea Pearl for services in Abu Dhabi, and Yukon Princesses for regular cargo flights at the Yukon river.
Hovertrans uses a hoverbarge in Suriname.
July Forthfast uses a hovercraft in Scotland between the towns of Firth of Forth and Edinburgh. | history hovercraft timeline 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
| Bibliography of History Hovercraft Timeline 8 Andrews, E (1971). The effect of lift-system airflow on the hull aerodynamics of hovercraft. Technical aeronautic report.
Duffus, A (1973). The potential of hovercraft in the Canadian Arctic and of hover ferries on the Canadian west coast. University of British Columbia, the Centre for Transportation Studies.
The Hoverclub of America (1996). Safety and competition rules for a light hovercraft. |
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