A hovercraft does not cut through the water like a conventional watercraft means it is far less susceptible to waves and water hazards like floating trees or shallow shoals. This much is fairly obvious: if you travel over an obstacle you can not be affected by the obstacle.
Hovercraft also have a substantially wider beam than [...]

As previously pointed out, hovercraft accidents are amazingly difficult to find reports of. Doing searches on hovercraft and accidents invariably yields results on how hovercraft are used as rescue vehicles after other type of craft have an accident.
Since a couple of rail options are proposed as alternatives to using hovercraft in the Washington D.C. area, [...]

Since hovercraft are obviously such great solutions to many pressing problems in urban development, why are they such a hard sell politically?
A lot of the reasons that hovercraft are not deployed in more areas are the very facts that make them such a great solution.
Conventional watercraft require a lot of the conventional methods that political [...]

A video montage of hovercraft in action and basically showing off.
It is especially telling when the hovercraft just blows right past the sleek and modern looking commercial cruiser as if it was nothing.
Take a look at how fast and effortlessly the hovercraft can travel over sand or water.
So why aren’t we using hovercraft?

It might be easier to answer: what aren’t hovercraft used for?
Some of the uses for hovercraft around the world are:

As search and rescue vehicles.

As daily transportation in Europe, the American continents and Asia.

As ‘floating’ platforms for combines during wheat harvests in Russia.

As charter services in the Caribbean and elsewhere.

As transportation where high speed ferry services [...]

This video was dug up while trying to find some bad things to say about hovercraft to provide an objective argument for them.
The title of this video is: Being Blown away by Hovercraft.
As you can see when you watch the video, the people with the camera wind up standing directly behind the massive main propellers.
It [...]

Alaska is obviously a very environmentally sensitive area. Alaska is also a very big area. People must be able to traverse the distances. Obviously there have been countless studies done on what the best way to move people from point A to point B through various delicate areas.
You can read about one such study by [...]

Take a look at this video and watch how this massive vehicle moves easily from water to land.
Pay special attention to how close the people are standing to the hovercraft and please notice they are not getting blasted by sand and air.
A lot of people’s objections to hovercraft is obviously based on pure myth.

As the articles on this site have pointed out time and time again, hovercraft are really the only logical choice for increasing mass transit in the D.C. Metro area.
Hovercraft are far less expensive than any of the currently available alternatives. The least expensive of the alternatives is 3 times as costly and the most expensive [...]

A video about the Stagecoach Hovercraft plan for Scotland.
As you can see, this is a good solution to their needs.
It is a shame that politics is getting in the way of this.