Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned an aircraft unlike anything else—a flying machine that could take off vertically, skim across water, and detect submarines. The result was the VVA-14, a ...

Hovercraft makes her maiden voyage across the ... which hovers just above the water on a cushion of air and was dubbed a 'man-made flying saucer'. He first tested his 'hover' theory using a ...

My father worked for Saunders-Roe during the time of The Princess Flying-Boat. My 5-year apprenticeship was when the company had become The British Hovercraft Corporation. My brother-in-law served ...

At the Saunders Roe works in Cowes, the world's first "Flying Saucer" was revealed, shedding its cloak of secrecy.

French pilot, Bruno Vezzoli, managed to cross the English Channel in a flying car. The single-seat dune buggy - named Pegasus - made the 36-mile journey from an abandoned runway in France ...