When they first hear the roar, visitors at Canada’s Expo 67 look skyward, expecting to see a low-flying airplane. Instead, shooting spray from all sides, an ungainly contraption speeds by on the ...

Huddling over two-foot boards of pink foam, freshmen engineering students gathered in the University of Maryland, College Park’s engineering building Thursday and made adjustments on the home-made ...

From gliding around on a hovercraft to building their own hot-air balloons, the kids of the Peak Adventure Club learned Sunday afternoon that science can be taken outside of the classroom. Nearly 50 ...

Soldiers suspended in the air in moon boots and sniping unsuspecting targets on the ground might sound like a battle tactic from a future war, but such a concept for an Army hovercraft actually traces ...

When you think of a vehicle that can do it all- water, land, ice, snow and more- the hovercraft often comes to mind. And while they might not be ubiquitous, hovercraft catch the imagination of many a ...

Thirty sailors and Marines assigned to Norfolk-based Navy ships were injured Wednesday in a hovercraft training mishap, the Navy said. On Friday, the Navy said two hovercraft vessels collided during ...