Chris Fitzgerald of Neoteric Hovercraft gave his talk about his experience with the Light Hovercraft Market over the last four decades or so on Thursday 13th October.
A recording of his presentation together with a discussion session has been loaded on our YouTube Channel.

Making a start to build pages for Air Cushion History and secondly for ACV/SES Drag some reference material has been loaded on the site. First, there is now a page for Air Cushion History. This page can be viewed from either the open library, or members library.
There are a number of books giving a historical perspective. A listing of some of these is given on the page. Clicking on the images should take you via a link to Amazon for the book, if it is still available.
We will add papers summarising developments from the early 1960’s in due course and reflect that in later blog pieces. Where appropriate we will make these available to visitors, otherwise documents will be available to registered members once logged in.

During the last week I discovered I had a copy of the Conference held in December 1985 jointly by The Hovercraft Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was held to celebrate the first 25 years of ACV and Air Cushion development generally in the UK and was attended by Sir Christopher Cockerell. Nine Technical papers were presented in the course of an afternoon, followed by a celebratory dinner for the participants.

The programme and papers are available just now under both the open library and the Members Library. At the end of September access will be limited to members logging on to the site.

Being the end of July we have our 4th News Note of 2022 just published. The full issue is available to registered members and subscribers under the Member News menu item which is visible after logging in.
For those of you not yet registered I give a flavour for the content in the blog post. Out of interest I am also including a couple of images from the 1980’s and 1990’s from my ‘library’. More info should eventually land in the ACV and SES Summary data pages in the open library.

In the last few weeks some time has been spent to scan and load the papers from two of the Society’s major conferences:

♦  The Third International Hovercraft Conference, held in November 1981

♦  The Fourth International Hovercraft Conference, Held in May 1987

Up until the end of July there are two locations to access these conference proceedings – both in the open library and in the members library. After the end of the month access will be limited to the members library. Until then I hope that this material can give visitors a feel for THS, and encourage them to register on the site, and to become a member to support us and the industry.

During the last few days we have set up a YouTube Channel for The Hovercraft Society.
The first material to be loaded is the first three of our presentation meetings, from December 2021, March 2022, and June 2022.
THS Members will find a link to the channel and summary descriptions on the Video and YouTube Guide page which is the first item under Members Library menu at top of the screen.
We aim to have presentations from key personnel in the ACV and SES Industry, as well as enthusiasts working on the technology, and technologists from academia to explain some of the latest theoretical work.
Keep an eye on the guide for new materials!