Inside Mighty Machines — Season 1, Episode 3: Hovercraft
Documentary • 45 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 6.7/10
Episode synopsis
Southampton, on England's south coast, is the final home of what was once the biggest hovercraft ever built - the Princess Margaret. As crews strip it down, Zdenek uncovers the principles that allow this 300-ton amphibious craft to hover weightlessly over the ground - and the water. Zdenek explores how the era of mighty passenger hovercrafts was finally brought to a surprising end by cheap alcohol - and then joins the crew of an LCAC, the U.S. Navy's state of the art military hovercraft, deployed in some of the world's most extreme conditions.
About Inside Mighty Machines
Former NASA rocket engineer Chad Zdenek takes apart some of the world's mightiest machines and uncovers their secrets.