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Hovercraft
Hovercraft see air-cushion vehicle .
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Hovercraft surfacing again
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 5/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...made. The hovercraft is a British...and most hovercrafts are manufactured...for buying hovercrafts also doomed...Thus, the hovercraft ferry from...in 1956, hovercrafts seemed by...fate of the hovercraft was presaged...
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Tabletop hovercraft.(QUICK ACTIVITY)
Magazine article from: Technology and Children; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...settle for an Earth-made hovercraft? Hovercrafts, or Air Cushion Vehicles...forces air under the hull of the hovercraft, creating a high-pressure...air cushion. This makes the hovercraft float. A flexible fabric skirt...
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Eugene, Ore., Hovercraft Maker Pursuing Boyhood Dream.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 4/27/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...skateboards, Phil Hibler built his first Hovercraft after reading about one of the futuristic...ice, land and water. "That first Hovercraft didn't last long, but it got me hooked...said. Hibler has since built about 30 Hovercraft, each more sophisticated than the last...
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Delray Beach, Fla., hovercraft maker sees big market for smaller model.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 7/21/2004; 700+ words
; ...budgeted to buy a new hovercraft, spent their cash...business. He has sold hovercrafts to the U.S. Coast...someone might hide. "Hovercraft can go anywhere. They...balance. The downside: Hovercrafts that seat three to...owner of Neoteric Hovercraft of Terre Haute, Ind...
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Air support: hovercraft will carry passengers and vehicles between remote Alaska towns.(93' HOVERCRAFT)
Magazine article from: Workboat; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...large infrastructure, then hovercrafts are the answer." BRITISH...designed by Hoverwork Ltd., a hovercraft manufacturing company and...designed and built several hovercrafts for the Canadian Coast Guard...extensively with the agency's hovercraft. His new company, Seamasters...
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World's First Hovercraft Thrill Ride Attraction to Take Flight in Long Beach.
Business Wire; 4/22/1999; 700+ words
; ...WIRE)--April 22, 1999-- Rainbow Hovercraft LLC is about to launch the nation's first passenger hovercraft thrill rides from Long Beach's Rainbow...Bay. Two custom-built 40-ft. hovercraft will each take 20 passengers on thrilling...
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Two Brown U. student build hovercraft
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/16/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...have seen a four-foot by eight-foot hovercraft floating on the grass in front of Technology...Nicholas Lochmatow '01 asked a local hovercraft enthusiast whether they could build...money went to purchasing parts for the hovercraft. We had a lot of trips to Home Depot...
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Riding o'er the waves: New British-designed hovercraft goes into service in Alaska.(Innovative Uses of Horsepower)(Griffon Hovercraft)(BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.)
Magazine article from: Diesel Progress North American Edition; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; The first Griffon Hovercraft to be built in the U.S. under...Beaufort Sea. The Griffon 2000 TD hovercraft is servicing offshore operations...air-cooled diesel engine, the hovercraft was ordered by Crowley Alaska Inc...
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Hovercraft saved - by hovercraft.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/3/2006; 625 words
; ...most unusual rescues to date when they used a hovercraft to bring another hovercraft to shore yesterday. Two surveyors raised the alarm using a mobile phone after their private hovercraft broke down on the Mersey and drifted across...
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RNLI hovercraft named with tributes from donor; Vital part of the search and rescue cover.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 6/27/2005; 700+ words
; Byline: BY LIAM MURPHY A HOVERCRAFT was officially named at a ceremony...RNLI's pounds 135,000 rescue hovercraft came from Kay Hurley MBE, after...the RNLI was considering placing a hovercraft at New Brighton, she decided to...
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hovercraft
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
hovercraft, also known as a ground effect machine...funding, that work on building the first hovercraft began. Called the SR-N1, it was...amphibious travel. Improvements in the hovercraft's skirt resulted in bigger versions...
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Hovercraft
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hovercraft see air-cushion vehicle .
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air-cushion vehicle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...called a ground-effect machine or Hovercraft. These vehicles are supported in various...1959 a commercially built one-person Hovercraft crossed the English Channel. In 1962...Bibliography: See J. R. Amyot, ed., Hovercraft Technology, Economics, and Applications...
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Gough, Michael
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Liberty (also known as MGS2 and Metal Gear Solid 2 ), Konami Corp., 2001. Voices of airspeeder pilot, battle droid, rebel hovercraft captain, Sith knight, fast bike driver, and Zalor minister, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, LucasArts Entertainment...
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skimmer
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...xA0; a device or craft designed to collect oil spilled on water. ∎ a hydroplane, hydrofoil, hovercraft, or other vessel that has little or no displacement when traveling. 2. a long-winged seabird (genus Rynchops ) related...
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