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Explain that Stuff

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Science

Floating your boats - whatever happened to the hovercraft?

Floating your boats - whatever happened to the hovercraft?

2024-11-02
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The hovercraft was an iconic British invention from the 1950s; now we barely hear about it at all. How exactly did it work... and why did it fall out of favour?

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