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 ...

It could turn out to be one of the coolest vehicles on Earth, even if it floats nine inches above it. A startup company in Chicago has come up with a revolutionary new hovercraft design that features ...

Matt Sheehy has been taking things apart since he was a little kid — and more often than not, he’s also managed to put them back together. But with his latest project, the Rhode Island 17-year-old ...

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 ...

Envisioned as early as the mid-1800s, the hovercraft is a unique amphibious vessel designed to float on a cushion of air, enabling it to travel over water and land. Closer to airplanes than boats in ...

Two designers are attempting to bring hovercrafts into the 21st century with a sleek, sports car-inspired creation. Produced in the 1950s, hovercrafts never took off but cousins Michael Mercier and ...

Even though hovercraft have been around for over half a century, they still have an air of the future about them. They’re used in everything from sports to oil exploration, yet they still leave a lot ...

some of the early work that was carried out at the Denny yard in Dumbarton on what was, at the time, a new form of marine craft – the side-wall hovercraft – was described in "From the Archives, 50 ...