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Hovercraft - New World Encyclopedia  Mar 24, 2014 ... During successful tests, one of Levkov's air-cushion craft, called fast attack L-5 ... France to the UK on the 50th anniversary of Bleriot's cross-Channel flight. ... car and passenger ferry service across the English Channel from Dover, .... World's Largest Civil HovercraftThe BHC SRN4 Mk III at 56.4 m (185 ft)...
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Hovercraft - McGill School Of Computer Science  BHC SR-N4 The world's largest car and passenger carrying hovercraft ... A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle (ACV), is a vehicle or craft that can be supported .... The later SR-N4 MkIII's had a capacity of 418 passengers and 60 cars. ... only one example entered service, was used for a few years on the cross-channel service.
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Hovercraft - Wikipedia  A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is a craft capable of travelling over .... N4 cross-channel ferry by Hoverlloyd and Seaspeed in 1968, hovercraft had ... The SR.N1 did not have any skirt, using instead the peripheral air principle that ... One of these models, the HM-2, was used by Red Funnel between...
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Ferry Fantastic: S. R. N. 4 'Mountbatten Class' Hovercraft  The first hovercraft built to traverse the English Channel was the Saunders Row ... The hovercraft is an amphibious vehicle which floats on a cushion of air ... It is hoped that at least one of these extraordinary vessels can be preserved. ... The two stretched 'Mark III' craft were fitted with the world's largest propellers and were...
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SR.N4 - Wikipedia  The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) hovercraft was a large passenger and vehicle carrying ... The SR.N4 was the largest hovercraft built to that date, designed to carry 254 passengers in two ... The SR.N4s operated services across the English Channel between 1968 and 2000. .... Mark 1 and 2: 39.68 m: Mark 3: 56.38 m.
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English Channel - Wikipedia  The English Channel also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates ... The Strait of Dover (French: Pas de Calais), at the Channel's eastern end is ... There is no connection with the Spanish inland province of La Mancha. .... a cross-Channel invasion and securing British dominance of the seas for over a...
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SRN-4 Hovercraft  | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly  We Love ...  Jun 7, 2016 ... The SRN1 Hovercraft was the first to cross the English Channel ... the machines potential and created BHC or the British Hovercraft Corporation and set about designing a passenger craft able to carry people across the English Channel. ... up and a fleet of the impressive SRN-4 went into service as ferries.
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Mais de 1000 ideias sobre Channel Tunnel no Pinterest  Eurostar high speed rail has arrived at the beautiful St Pancras International train ... The Chesapeake Bay BridgeTunnel (CBBT) is a 23-mile long fixed link ... The Channel Tunnel (The Chunnel)  Opened in 1994, the Channel Tunnel is an ... out at Kent in England and finishes at Coquelles near Calais in northern France.
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SR.N4 - Wikipedia  The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) hovercraft was a large passenger and vehicle carrying hovercraft built by the British Hovercraft Corporation (BHC). ... N4 was the largest hovercraft built to that date, designed to carry 254 passengers in two ... N4s operated services across the English Channel between 1968 and 2000.
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Oporto and Northern Portugal - Tourism Information - Virtual Portugal  The country's longest motorway (A1, from Lisbon to Oporto) goes up to Braga (A3), .... Ponte de Lima - the town is named after the bridge which crosses the River...
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World Record for Speed Over a Known Course Archives - This Day ...  Sep 1, 2016 ... 59 April 1937: Kamikaze-g, a prototype of the Mitsubishi Ki-15 ... The airplane was flown to London for the coronation of George VI. ... JAPAN MAKES HER MARK ... in that the aircraft and engine were of Japanese manufacture. ... minutes the Divine Wind took the air again for Paris, arriving there at 1.33...
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Royal Navy pledges to 'man mark' Vladimir Putin's navy as Russians ...  Oct 20, 2016 ... ROYAL Navy warships will man-mark a menacing Russia fleet that is ... the North Sea and are expected to pass through the Dover Straits ... The eight hi-tech ships will sail to the war-torn nation's Mediterranean coast, with the fleet passing through the North Sea and English Channel in the coming days.
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jeopardy/170_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  TRANSPORTATION | Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft | Dirigibles. right: Bruce. Wrong:.
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English Channel - Wikipedia  The English Channel also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates ... It is relatively shallow, with an average depth of about 120 m (390 ft) at its ... The French name la Manche has been in use since at least the 17th century. .... Blriot's crossing signalled the end of the Channel as a barrier-moat for...
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Strait of Gibraltar crossing - Wikipedia  The Strait of Gibraltar crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel spanning the Straits of Gibraltar that would connect Europe and Africa. The governments of Spain and Morocco appointed a joint committee to investigate the feasibility of linking ... Spain first proposed a modern tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar in 1930.
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Russians to send aircraft carrier and fleet along the English Channel  Oct 14, 2016 ... Russia is expected to sail its only aircraft carrier through the English ... use the voyage as an opportunity for a show of strength as it passes Britain, ... The most likely thing is that they will go through the North Sea, down the Dover Strait and ... One Royal Navy Type 23 frigate and one Type 45 destroyer are...
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English Channel tunnel opens - May 06, 1994 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, English Channel tunnel opens on May 06, 1994. ... The channel tunnel, or Chunnel, connects Folkstone, England, with Sangatte, France, 31 miles ... who bore a tunnel more than a mile long before abandoning the project. .... in London, England, nearly 100 years after it disappeared into obscurity.
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An historical account of the wall - Paperclip Community Networks  That wall, crossing the North of England, extended from the Solway Firth to the Tyne, ... Pius, in 140, and lay across the isthmus between the Firths of Forth and Clyde. ... together with the quantity built at such a part by each legion of vexillation. ... with the symbol of a sea-goat; the Sixth, named the Vanquisher, with eagles'...
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Flying boat - Wikipedia  A flying boat is a fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water, that usually has ... Flying boats were some of the largest aircraft of the first half of the 20th century .... In the USA Wanamaker's commission built on Glen Curtiss' previous .... by the Royal Navy for coastal patrols, and to search for German U-boats.
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Human flight, history (1919-1938) - encyclopedia article - Citizendium  Sep 28, 2013 ... Crossing the Atlantic Ocean by airplane was a first major 'race' of world ... The 1920s would show no slowdown of aerial activity in international skies. ... On 20-21 May 1927, the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight was flown...
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Transatlantic crossing - Wikipedia  Transatlantic crossings are passages of passengers and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean ... Grand ocean liners began making regularly scheduled crossings, and soon it ... Examples of some famous transatlantic liners are RMS Titanic (had only ... records to various classes such as luxury liners, sail boats, and rowing boats.