Pittsburgh leaders plan to use a federal grant to buy a new hovercraft and outfit the city's two main rescue boats with new motors. City Council gave preliminary approval to the necessary legislation ...

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Growing up, I dreamt of buying and creating a hovercraft based on the blueprints marketed in the classified section next to the sea monkey ads in every issue of Boy’s Life magazine. I never was ...

Air-cushion vehicles or hovercraft are not a new concept. But somehow, their ability to travel on both land and water was obscured by their high costs, noisy engines, and finicky nature, so they lost ...

We're all familiar with cars, planes, trains and boats as being the most popular forms of transport the world over. But while boats and ferries have long proven their worth at crossing large bodies of ...

When Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Myrnam, Alta., heard the carcass of an unfinished hovercraft was about to be thrown away, he jumped into action. Myrnam's mayor called Tymofichuk years ago to ask ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Many Western New Yorkers enjoy traveling to Toronto. And, if all goes according to plan, in a few short years there will be a new way to complete that journey. Having already secured a ...

A permanent hovercraft service could connect Fife and Edinburgh under plans being considered by councillors. In 2007 a trial scheme run by Stagecoach saw services run for a week between Portobello ...

AN AMBITIOUS plan to create a state-of-the-art hovercraft commuter service linking Southampton and Portsmouth has been unveiled. Hovertravel, which already runs a hovercraft service between Southsea ...

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