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SUPPLEMENT TO FLIGHT International 19 July 1962 Air-Cushion Vehicles Editor-in-Chief Maurice A. Smith DFC Editor H. F. King MBE Technical Editor W. T. Gunston Production Editor Roy Casey Managing Director H. N. Priaulx MBE MAKING AND REPEATING HISTORY IlifTc Transport Publications Ltd Dorset House, Stamford Street, London SEI Telephone: Waterloo 3333 (Telex 25137) telegrams: Flightpres London Telex Annual subscriptions Home Us. Overseas 18s. Canada and USA $3 Branch Offices 8-10 Corporation Street, Coventry Telephone: Coventry 25210 King Edward House, New Street, Birmingham 2 lelephone: Midland 7191 260 Deansgate, Manchester 3 lelephone: Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595 6: Buchanan Street, Glasgow CI lelephone: Central 1265/6 New York, N.Y. luMJj? * C°mPany (publiahera> Ltd lelephone: Digby 9-1197 © Hifte Transport Publications Ltd 1962. ™™ission to reproduce illustrations and TODAY, ON THE EVE OF THE World's first public service by air- cushion vehicle, Flight International launches this new monthly Iliffe jour nal. So is history made. So, also, does history repeat itself; for it was as a supplement to the Automotor Journal, in the early years of this century, that Flight itself was born. We intend that, in the pages of Air-Cushion Vehicles, a wholly new, wholly amazing, realm of transport shall be mirrored. And amazing is the word; for whatever the true his tory of the air-cushion vehicle may eventually prove to have been (the full story of the earliest experiments is yet to be told, and will be printed in our pages), this new mode of conveyance has come into its own in little more than three years. Almost incredibly, it was as recently as June 1, 1959, that the Saunders- Roe SR.N1, Britain's earliest Hover craft, first hovered free of restraint. Never was there such a phenomenon of transport progress, neither in recorded history nor in the romances of Verne or Wells. There must be many among our readers who, since boyhood, have dreamed of massive sea-going craft which somehow contrive to rise above the wavetops. Somehow.... Today we know how; and the air-cushion affords not only a new dimension in over-water travel but comes as "a release from the wheel" for over land employment. This visionary reference to the wheel, we believe, first appeared in the columns of Flight, heading a contribution by International News 2 Quotes 5 Hovercraft Ferry System 8 Vickers VA-3 9 SR.N2 Progress Report 16 The First Service 18 ACD.1 19 ACV Government 20 Industry 22 Mr Christopher Cockerell. whose name is recognized as that of a true pioneer. It is our hope that we shall be able to print many other such historic contributions in this new journal, to complement the regular features inaugurated in this issue. Like its parent, Air-Cushion Ve hicles will be international in charac ter. Yet not one of the foreign constructors already hard at work, and whose efforts will have an equal place with Britain's, will grudge us one further expression of pride—this time in a national sense. For beyond all dispute these curious craft, which promise so many new benefits for mankind, have first been developed and put to work in the British Isles.
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