Hovercraft departing Dover | Seaspeed | Seeing and Doing | 1977
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- The Cross Channel Hovercraft departing the Port of Dover in Kent en route to Calais.
Filmed in 1977
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The noise and vibration while travelling on these machines was incredible! But I loved them 🥰
Went on this for the school holiday to Lourdes you can't believe how exciting it was. The only thing was you couldn't see a thing out of the window because of the spray and rain but watching it now it's like looking at the future not the past.
It's ashamed they weren't able to record the sound with this footage. Despite this, it's still some amazing footage of a truly awesome machine. Thank you.
Don't you remember them. Bloody loud!
No hovercraft, no Concorde no gtv
We are going downwards
My thoughts exactly ... when I saw the girl in red .. boarding that big lady in (rubber:) skirts . and no Busso violin, I might add 😢
I went on one of these back in 79 going over to Europe Amazing
I miss those things, great fun
Beautiful craft
Mighty and beautiful Princess Margaret ... breathing out flames .. charging across the seas . with a roar 😊🌹
Alfa Gtv goin up the ramp !
I think that’s likely to be the hover craft my classmates and I went on for a day trip to Boulogne from Calais back in 1977. It was a brilliant day out and I came back laden with different kinds of French cheese, as I was developing a lifelong love of smelly cheese back then!! I remember the hovercraft starting up being quite jerky and fast, not like an aeroplane at all - I was used to travelling by plane as a child!
Amazing footage ! Thanks for sharing .
Play the music from 'Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!)' when they are on the hovercraft, and it's pretty much the same thing.
Must have vaporised quite a few seagulls in its day
We’re they diesel ?
No, they were powered by 4 Rolls Royce Marine Proteus gas turbine engines, derivatives of the engines that powered the Bristol Britannia. So the fuel was kerosene, or known today as Jet A1, a type of paraffin.
VERY COOL; USA should buy 2; quick response; long range?
This whole country is sliding down the pan. The 80's and 90's were far better than today in every way. That hovercraft was simply EPIC and where is it today? Hmmm sad.
chris fleming
And better the 70's
Hovercraft are incredibly loud, and fuel is much more expensive than it was back then.
Hovercraft are outdated. There's a bloody tunnel with high speed rail underneath the sea now. Air travel is cheap. Ferries are gigantic and slow because it saves money to do that.
That being said, yeah the country is sliding down the pan. Tories will do that to you. England broke with Thatcher and has been disintegrating since.
'Epic' is the right word for her and a bunch of other phenomenal achievements ... being sacrificed by accountants in the name of 'efficiency' .. only to make way for sub mediocre mass culture . or do all those cruise ships, cheap charter flights so forth carrying blind and deaf caravans of 'travellers' all around the planet function on thin air 😕
I wish I lived in the 70’s. To be honest though I’m so glad that things are getting less futuristic, because interesting- it’s like we are progressing to being more old fashioned rather than modern which is great.
No sound
Still no sound from 1977. LOL