Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
Memorial to Cockerell at Hythe, Hampshire
Cockerell in 1976
Cockerell's workshop reassembled at Lowestoft Maritime Museum
A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces.
RLG-innovations eurocraft, a Formula 1 racing hovercraft
SR.N4 hovercraft arriving in Dover on its last commercial route across the English Channel (1 October 2000)
U.S. Navy LCAC
Luftkissengleitboot replica