stackyFACTSWhy take a quiet boat when you can ride a massive, deafening fan over a mudflat? This passenger service refuses to let hovercraft transit die, offering commuters the chance to arrive at their destination vibrating and partially deaf.
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British engineer Christopher Cockerell invented the hovercraft in the 1950s using an empty cat food tin, a coffee tin, and an industrial hairdryer to test his…
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Halfway between a hovercraft and a normal boat, these vessels trap a massive bubble of air under their rigid hulls. It allows them to aggressively skim over…
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Floating majestically on a literal cushion of air requires trapping that air with a giant, flexible fabric curtain hanging around the edge of the vehicle.…
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The US Office of Naval Research looked at the Segway decades before it was invented and thought, "Let's make it fly and arm the rider." The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee…
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These tiny, cartoonish boats endlessly putter around the inner harbor, picking up anyone too lazy to walk the perimeter. They essentially function as floating…
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Someone decided standard boats were incredibly boring, so they strapped a massive industrial fan to a giant rubber skirt just to aggressively blow dirt into…
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