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...shooting spray from all sides, an ungainly contraption speeds by on the nearby St. Lawrence River, carrying 38 passengers on one of the fair's most popular rides. For most visitors, it is their first glimpse of the hovercraft, a British amphibious vehicle that suspends itself on a cushion of air and skims with equal ease over land, ice or water...
...clearance on land. Two of the 165-tonners will be in regular service across the English Channel by 1968, making their runs at speeds as high as 85 m.p.h. By the end of 1970, the company expects to have developed 300-to 400-ton air-cushion ships that will be capable of operating on the open seas. Inventor Cockerell visualizes a 10,000-ton atomic-powered craft that will cross the Atlantic at high speeds with 2,000 passengers aboard...
...gunboats to hunt down Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta. It has just sold its first two commercial craft to an Alaska firm that will use them to supply offshore drilling operations. Using the hover principle on land, a French hover train, suspended above a monorail by a thin cushion of air, has already reached speeds of 190 m.p.h...
Esoteric Future. The hover principle has equally good prospects in industry. British Hovercraft is producing hover pallets, air-cushion platforms that can be used to move heavy industrial loads. In a recent British Hovercraft demonstration, for example, a 41-ton machine tool on a hover pallet was easily pushed several feet by two men. By fixing a skirt around a 14-ton oil-storage tank at a military depot and pumping in air, hovercraft technicians were able to move the tank on a cushion of air across a road and a railroad line to a new location. A hover transporter...
...regrettably settled for interior settings-constant reminders to the audience that The Honey Pot was adapted from the stage. Like Fox himself, the film suffers fatally from indecision; wavering between comedy and suspense, it slips between them and relies too heavily on Harrison's fair-gentlemanly charm to cushion the fall. The device almost works...