Fifty Years of the Hovercraft

Sir Christopher Cockerell was a legendary English engineer, who came up with an early model designed to travel on a cushion of air back in 1955
Courtesy of the Hovercraft Museum

A Dream Becomes Reality
In 1955, Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910 - 1999), a legendary English engineer, came up with an early model designed to travel on a cushion of air. It would revolutionize transport allowing fast, friction-free travel on both land and sea.

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