Hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicles ... ‘The fantastic future of travel: 1,500-mph Family Cars?’ appeared in the August 1961 issue of Popular Science Popular Science According to Fitzgerald ...

The cars were done-up inside and out. In the end, the Air Car idea fizzled out, but the hovercraft idea did not. Militaries around the world still use hovercrafts for landing operations today ...

In the 1960s, the Air Car 2500 promised a futuristic world of flying cars, blending hovercraft technology with automotive design. Created by Curtiss-Wright and Studebaker-Packard, this military ...

creating what was termed a 'Ground Effects Machine' (GEM), which we now know as a hovercraft. Twin 180-hp Lycoming aircraft engines were mounted fore and aft in the Air Car's tube-frame chassis ...

Born from Cold War innovation and postwar military budgets, the Air Car 2500 was a hovercraft-car hybrid that promised to revolutionize transport. It was stylish, amphibious, and backed by big ...

two former hovercraft pilots who wrote a history of the vehicle, On a Cushion of Air, portions of the skirt needed daily repair or replacement. “When you have a car, you don’t expect that you ...

Yet even though for decades massive passenger and car-carrying hovercraft ... not unlike with the air intakes of airplanes. So with that said, obviously hovercraft and its kin were all ...

The Landing Craft Air Cushion, or LCAC ... but he still technically drove the thing. The 87-foot long hovercraft’s four 5,000 hp engines lift it off the ground and can launch it to a top ...