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The Ferry Man

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Hovershow 2012!
« on: July 22, 2012, 13:57:43 »

Hey Guys

On Saturday the Hovercraft Museum had its open day, and this time it was actually nice weather for a change ;D

The museum itself has been shuffled around quite a bit since the last time I went, and there were less space to look around this time too. The Princess Anne was open with her starboard passenger compartment open, as well as a lot of the vehicle deck, which had some hovercraft inside. the princess Margaret had her bow door open as well, although you could only go to the top of the ramp. The Passenger door was open although it appeared to be blocked of by cones. The Top Gear Hovercraft has was there too ;D

here are some pics from the day, some more can be found here (http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/The-Ferry-Man/Hovershow%202012/)


The refurbished SRN5


One of The Princess Anne's Pylons, sadly fading




Couple of small hovercraft


The Princess Anne




The Top gear Ice Cream Craft!


Stern of The princess Anne


Two hovercraft made on the TV programme Scrapheap Challenge


Its a Hovercraft!  :doh:


A sci-fi looking hovercraft


The princess Anne and The Princess Margaret


BH7 Hovercraft


The Princess Margaret


Inside the Skirt!


Car Deck of The princess margaret


Spare Pylon


SR.N6 Twin Prop




Hovercraft onboard The Princess Anne


A Griffon Hovercraft


Looking sternwards at The Princess Margaret


The Princess Margaret and The Princess Anne


Hoverhawk 030


Hoverhawk Mk 3


More small craft





Onboard The Princess Anne


Engineers door open on The Princess Anne on the right the air duct pipe can be seen leading to the skirt fan


Griffon 380TD


The Princess Anne


Tiger Hovercraft returning from a short trip


The Gearbox mount of a SR.N4 Propellor


Tiger Hovercraft going back out again


The open bow door of The Princess Anne


SR.N6 Well deck


Looking down the side of The Princess Anne


Minicraft!


James Bond Hovercraft


Deb1C


The massive engine from a SR.N4


Medium to small!


Sea Hawk SR.N6


View looking inside the open air duct of Sea hawk showing the massive lift fan


Inside Sea Hawk


SR.N6 Controls


The Princess Anne


The Princess Margaret


Griffon Royal Marine craft


SR.N6 Twin prop craft


Tiger Hovercraft on the pad

Oh and if you want top buy me a present...



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ci

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Re: Hovershow 2012!
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2012, 14:15:43 »

Nice set of pics TFM  :thumbs:

ps i want one of those as well
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Captain Cadet

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Re: Hovershow 2012!
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2012, 19:37:05 »

looks good. i been on a hovercraft before and i goto amit it was fun
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dexter7

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Re: Hovershow 2012!
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2012, 16:45:18 »

Great photos TFM!
I'd love to have one like the little one on the right, if I lived near a great lake or ocean...
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Rbsanford

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Re: Hovershow 2012!
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2012, 17:33:50 »

oh yeah, little one would be great! fits nicely in a car, very portable, should go very quick. instead of canoeing at five mph across the boundary waters you could soar across them with probably few emissions (although motor-craft is banned in the BWCA and Voyageurs National forest :-\)

great pics TFM! ;D Princess Anne and Princess Margaret are beautiful! :2thumbs:
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Captain Cadet

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Re: Hovershow 2012!
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2012, 22:04:15 »

yep
exept there is a no boating risk here (comming soon if we dont get any luck)
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mikenco

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Re: Hovershow 2012!
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2012, 02:07:07 »

Great collection of photos!

My Dad used to work as a deck hand on the big hovers when they still ran out of Dover. We used to live in a sleepy village a couple of miles along the coast and on those windless foggy nights, I used to lay in bed and listen to distant bassy roar of those old craft approaching from France, followed by the last power-up as they climbed onto the pad in Dover Western.

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