OMG that's pretty cool I've always wanted to ride in one of the smaller ones lol they look like they'd be supa fun :v 

I've seen the movie those ones are in that's cool you got to see them in person.

Sometimes when I'm looking round a museum I come across an exhibit which has a notice on it saying that it was used in some film or TV show and it is sort of cool to see the actual vehicle they used even if I've never seen or heard of the film or TV show.

I've never seen a hovercraft in person and I didn't even know they made them this big  I thought all of them were smaller for 1 or 2 people. This is really interesting to learn. Do they not have any that guest can ride? Or they are all not operational anymore? 

Just imagining AnimeDragon riding a hovercraft like in the James Bond movies is now gonna live in my head rent free ;D LOLLL 

like Pessi mentioned ~ I didn't know these things were this big either O_O I thought they were like smallish things and didn't know they made monster ones to fit this many people in like geeeeez @.@ Thas pretty cool though for sure ~ and nice pics of them too! 

Nice pictures!! ( ^▽^)σ)~O~)

@Zeref, @Sakura While I knew OF the SR.N4 and had seen film of them in service I'd never actually seen one until I visited the museum and I was totally blown away by how huge they were. I spend aged just wandering round it inside and outside and thinking that this huge machine could actually fly across the channel.  I don't think that the museum actually offers hovercraft rides, but I seem to recall from my visit that there was a hovercraft operating from the slipway opposite the museum that give rides but they weren't operating the day I was there. 

I have had a ride in a hovercraft, way way back when I was about 10 one of the seaside places we visited on holiday was doing rides round the harbour.

I'm going to join the I-didn't-know-they-were-this-big group because I had no idea either. That's something fascinating to learn because I never would have guessed they'd built some capable of holding 400 plus passengers  

The first one doesn't look as if it'd be very big, but when you see it from the front and inside it's much wider than I'd guess judging from the side view. I would never have thought one would be capable of holding 60 cars either. That's impressive. 

The SR.N4 doesn't look that large from a distance, but when I stood in front of it and walked up the car ramp and stood in the car deck I was totally blown away at just how massive it was, I stood on the car deck for quite a while taking in just how big it was.

21 hours ago, Animedragon said:

@Zeref, @Sakura While I knew OF the SR.N4 and had seen film of them in service I'd never actually seen one until I visited the museum and I was totally blown away by how huge they were. I spend aged just wandering round it inside and outside and thinking that this huge machine could actually fly across the channel.  I don't think that the museum actually offers hovercraft rides, but I seem to recall from my visit that there was a hovercraft operating from the slipway opposite the museum that give rides but they weren't operating the day I was there. 

I have had a ride in a hovercraft, way way back when I was about 10 one of the seaside places we visited on holiday was doing rides round the harbour.

I was too just looking at your pics honestly ~ I really thought like Pessi, that they held 1-2 people or sumin and just kinda acted maybe like a small motor boat lol but I've never ridden in one that sounds like it would be fun ._.