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5:34 😄

Was that the ex bird @5:34 💨

nice burp at 5:34

I travel via hovercraft regularly to visit my sister on the Isle of Wight. Southsea to Ryde in ten minutes. It’s a thrilling experience every time! The flights can be a bit bumpy sometimes, but that just adds to the excitement. 😊

Did someone belch at 05.35?

Wtf

During August, 1968, British Rail commenced a cross-Channel service using the SRN4---a one hundred and sixty-five ton hovership suitable for all-the-year round services over open coastal water routes such as the English Channel, and capable of journeys up to one hundred nautical miles over waves as high as eight to twelve feet.

I was fortunate enough to watch this live and ride them as well. No recording could ever capture the sheer visceral vibration of the event!

I loved it. Missing it. This is something the next Generation will Never get to Ride

Looks like that was the Norwegian Dream docked at the port.

💗🤍💚💯💯💯

Love the sinister belch at 5:34😂

Happy days, I used to travel Hoverlloyd from Pegwell Bay. Fascinating machines and a great way to travel

Me and my family ended up riding on a Hovercraft between Dover and Calais back at Easter 2000. We were meant to go on the Sea Cat to Ostende but the ferries were all being diverted to Calais due to bad weather. Remember the Hovercraft crossing being extremely bumpy and really unpleasent. By some miracle me and my family all avoided being ill but most of the other passengers weren't so lucky. It would have been nice to have experienced it in smoother conditions.

Will never understand why they got rid of this. Quick effective, efficient and proper British engineering at its best. Now it's all imported from China.

As a kid in the 1970s I wanted to travel on one. Just never had a reason and the only time I went to France it was on an airliner. Now I never will get that chance.

I always felt sick as a dog travelling on these.

Got off at this station recently for a party - I live in Folkestone. Thank you for posting all these old videos! Seeing the South-East of Kent in those days makes me nostalgic.

At 5'33" the real engines sound.

So fast 💨 awesome 👏

5:33 Barney,?? is that you? 😀

I cried years ago and I am crying now at the power - the build up and the majestic way it leaves the ground to the sea. What a silly billy I am... Does anyone else get emotional?

The Princess Margaret, Mountbatten Class… the Brits sure know how to make exciting things sound dreary.

I can still remember my girlfriend and I, travelling to Calais and back on the Cross Channel Hovercraft service, quick and loud! But I still preferred the more leisurely ferry service! Now the shuttle is my travel choice quick and convenient and the dog can sit with us!!

5:32 best part of the video - added sound effects :)

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where ever in dover you where ( buckland,maxton,whitfield)ect. you would hear her and her sister fire up then roar as they exited the breakwater and went full throttle,lucky enough to have flown in them a few times and the funny looking french one which was in service for a few years SN500 i think it was 3 engines at the back and 3 times as high

Wonderful invention But it was rather noisy

IT'S ALWAYS AMAZING, WATCH THE HOVERCRAFT'S DEPARTURE FROM DOVER!!!!!!!!!

Great video. I was 15, when I was hovering for the very first time from Dover to Calais. Sadly to say it was the first and last time. Later I used to travel to UK always by plane, it was and still is the cheapest and fastest way to reach the UK.

Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight not as big but just as good

GHOST 🦇🦇💯💯💯

wow, it's huge!

That was awesome!! Thank u for the upload....👍

What i like to call "The concorde of the seas"

1:02 looks like someone I used to work with, James

omG

Great video. I had many great holidays on the continent as a kid and we always went by Hovercraft. Thanks for posting, great memories.

5:43 "More tea vicar?"

Fabulous achievement, now you can cross the Channel by P & O Ferries on a day trip return, COVID Special, advertised at £54 Each Way..BUT costs you £284, I kid you not, no wonder the ferry was empty of cars and passengers, pure Greed.

Great to have this footage of the cross channel hovercraft - and the acrobatic seagull as a nice contrast!

It is coming up to 20 years, since these great machines were retired from service. What a shame they were never converted to Diesel. If so they would have remained competitive, for several more years.

What a shame, they were never converted to Diesel. If so, they could have continued to remain in competitive service, for many more years.

Just swing her around so manoeuvreble

Great way to cross the channel, did it twice and had lunch and duty free shopped in Boulogne

She was scrapped a couple of years ago. Today, only her sister: princess Anne survives.

Remember a holiday in 1999 at St Marys at cliff a few miles from Dover could that magic noise half way across the channel,Took a trip across on her on the day of the eclipse.

Why everything the British used to do was so .... Thunderbirds!? You´d say they built stuff just to inspire/copy Jerry Anderson, or give Airfix a cue to their next kit!

SUMMER 2000!!! - THAT'S WHEN I FINALLY FUCKED OFF BACK TO CRETE!!! ...made a few passes back through that end but did not re-settle... - prefer GREECE!!! ...used to enjoy sitting watching the hovercraft from the viewing area - never did get to go on it because the jobsworths would not let me take my bicycle...

I’m only here for the Burp 🤣