But I still get the chocolate Dad doan I doan I???:veryangry:
I don't believe many on here have 'flown' hovers, but 40 years ago I ran a club in the Bois de Bolougne called Martines (at the Pavilion Royale) and commuted 3 times a week by Hover, plus they were developed around here wher I are - 'Mad Dog Cockerill' was always cutting up the sailing fleets in the Solent!
There's still a daily service from Clarence Pier to Ryde IOW and I believe it's the only regular service left in the UK, possibly the world.
It is one of the most bizarre forms of travel ever invented and in a short slop of about 2-3 metres makes more people seasick than any regular boat I know, as it tends to slam into the wave almost stop and then lurch forward like a plane in turbulence.
A bit like the much vaunted broad beam wave piercer cat design when travelling fast in a beam sea, when the boat will tend to slide sideways into a trough and then corkscrew it's way upright again. A most unusual (and unsettling) motion.
Best form of fast sea transport is the Norwegian 'Surface Reaction Vessel' a clever combination of hover and cat. On smooth water she will 'drop her skirt' and hover, whilst at sea she works just like any other narrow beam fast cat and can negogiate quite steep troughs.
Now THAT's what I call thread drift!
(I still think it's SRN3 as they have one in the Hover Museum in Cowes - and Im sure I've seen it there - but you are the expert Dave.)