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Hovercrafts were the future of travel, then it all went sideways

By CNN.com - RSS Channel - World Aug 13, 2021 | 5:02 AM


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 France since the late 1960s. Now it was time to say au revoir.