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 relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin was injured when a hovercraft overturned near a yacht club outside Moscow, ...

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 ...

Welcome Back to the Daily Aviation, as we explore the remarkable capabilities of military hovercraft and landing craft that ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...