Hovercraft Take To The Sky

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Developed by Rudy Heeman of Nelson, New Zealand, the latest Flying Hovercraft is a "wing in ground effective vehicle" that can travel on water or land vehicle as well as fly.

Developed by Rudy Heeman of Nelson, New Zealand, the latest Flying Hovercraft is a "wing in ground effective vehicle" that can travel on water or land vehicle as well as fly.

The machine takes flight on extended removable wings, as the hoverwing reaches the top speed of 60mph, having started off like a normal-hovercraft. The maximum altitude of this Flying Hovercraft is around 3 meters. With a 1.8 litre Subaru engine, it has a maximum range of 225 kilometres. It can take only two people or 160 kg while flying, but in hovercraft mode the capacity rises to three people.

This is not the first 'boat' however of renown to come out of New Zealand.
Sir William Hamilton created a boat that would dramatically reduce the amount of draught required, when he developed the first waterjet propulsion system for boats back in 1954. This boat specifically permitted passenger carrying boats, for the first time, to navigate the narrow shallows of white water Rivers.

Bills dream revolutionized the world of conventional boating, once he had built an artificial lake, for research and development, on his high country sheep station, Irishman Creek, in the Mackenzie Country of Canterbury.

After building an artificial lake, at Irishman Creek, on his high country sheep station, in the Mackenzie Country of Canterbury, for research and development, Bills dream reformed the world of conventional boating.

The Hamilton Jet permitted boats to travel to places that had never before been accessible. These boats became caught up in many ground-breaking ventures, such as navigating the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, Nepal; Sun Kosi, Papua New Guinea; Zaire, Sepik, Amazon and Ganges Rivers.

This boat quickly turned into the number once boat of choice for rescue boats for flood relief and surveying, besides recreation.

Before Bill Hamilton died in 1978, he received a knighthood. He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 and in 2004 he was introduced into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.


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