OITA—After a 15-year hiatus, hovercraft are making a comeback as Oita Prefecture prepares to reopen what will be Japan’s only passenger route for the watercraft as early as December. The hovercraft ...

A futuristic vehicle dubbed 'the Bugatti of hovercrafts' is nearing its testing phase. The Mercier-Jones hovercraft is designed to cruise along on both land and water on a cushion of air at speeds up ...

In the nineteen fifties, hovercraft looked like something pulled straight from science fiction. They promised to glide over water, mud, sand, and even ice with ease. Designers imagined fast ferries, ...

In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushion ...

The Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio buys two carts for $58,000 each. July 11, 2013— -- No matter the form of transportation, they're always a little bit cooler if they can hover. Look ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Some people work in ...

The hovercraft that has long been at the center of a national debate over cutting a road through an Alaska wilderness will soon go up for sale. But that won't mark the end of one village's saga to ...

Frustrated with what they see as stagnation in the evolution of hovercraft design over recent decades, cousins Michael Mercier and Chris Jones have teamed up in an effort to bring the personal ...

Well, this headline is what you might call poetic license in that it needs extra clarification: anyone can build a hovercraft at home, as long as that "anyone" is skilled, hard-working, determined, ...

On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and ...

A Finnish designer has drawn up a concept solar hovercraft that may soon be ferrying passengers among ports along the Baltic Sea. The AirFlow, penned by Lukas Medeisis, was designed to solve ...