Four films have been added to the THS YouTube library, as follows:

– Apethorpe Rally 1966 HCGB (11:47)
– Rallying in 1968 HCGB (9:30)
– Rallies 1968 Combo HCGB (29:41)
– Film from Bob Windt 1971 (5:46)

These are all films digitised from 8 and Super8 film that has been in the Bliault ‘Archive’ for several decades.
At that time personal or amateur hovercraft were developing mostly by individual experiment and are a contrast with the aeronautical technology being applied at that time at Saunders Roe, HDL, Vickers, and Vosper.

ASNE Paper from June 1989 by THS Member John Lewthwaite has been added to the SES/ACV Drag page under the members library

A guide page and the papers from the Fifth International ACV Conference have now be loaded to the site. There are 12 papers available from the 15 presentations made.

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.