The full story behind the simplest yet most futuristic of crafts The hovercraft has a multitude of uses across numerous arenas, including leisure cruising and Formula 1 racing; it has modernized travel and saved many lives, boasting zero fatalities in accidents, yet despite all this little has been written about this most humble craft. This colorful book decisively redresses the balance and with a detailed history, unpublished photographs from the Hovercraft Museum archives, and diagrams comprehensively reveals the story behind the versatile hovercraft.