The Northwestern University student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) wasted no time getting off the ground. Less than a year after its launch, the student group designed ...

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In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushion ...

Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Alberta, Canada, spent nearly 2,000 hours building an operational hovercraft from salvaged car parts and with no blueprint. By Emmett Lindner On a cold spring day in a ...

A hovercraft can cross water, land, mud, and sand without noticing the difference, so why did commercial services collapse ...

From its shipyard just past the floodwall in New Orleans East, Textron Systems designs, builds and tests the latest in hovercraft technology. Workers there take in 40-foot-long sheets of raw aluminum, ...

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Well, this headline is what you might call poetic license in that it needs extra clarification: anyone can build a hovercraft at home, as long as that "anyone" is skilled, hard-working, determined, ...

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