The
hovercraft was a hit with its 32,000 passengers, and many others were left disappointed at not being able to get tickets for the runs to Portobello.
A photo from August 1968 shows seven-year-old Guy with the
hovercraft made by father Peter at his Betton home.
It is a scaled down model of the
hovercraft which Mr Mayer is to build for himself," it goes on.
Two of the volunteers boarded the
hovercraft to monitor the porpoise as it was transported to the water's edge.
I spent some time figuring it out and thought it was achievable by
hovercraft.
"This is BS, each
hovercraft looks like the size of a whole neighborhood."
The tide rises rapidly along the Wirral coastline and
Hovercraft Crew member, Dave Noble, said the man had a lucky escape.
The Science Olympiad consists of events ranging from written tests on individual subjects to design-and-build competitions that require participants to construct towers, aircraft and other devices including buggies and
hovercrafts that transport up to 16 rolls of pennies for 15 seconds.
Sixty years after British inventor Christopher Cockerell demonstrated the principles of the
hovercraft using a cat food tin and a vacuum cleaner, the event will span five days and be held at Cliff Lakes from July 27-31.
The
hovercraft had lost power to its propulsion fan, so the pilot beached the craft approximately one and a half miles north west of the lifeboat station.
The museum has 65
hovercraft in different states of repair, ranging from small one-seaters to the largest
hovercraft ever made, the SRN4.