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The British Hovercraft Corporation BH.7 is a considerably larger hovercraft than the preceding SR.N6. Dependent on configuration and equipment fitted, each vehicle weighs around 60 tonnes and a payload capacity of roughly 15 tonnes; its civil version was reportedly designed to accommodate a maximum of eight cars and just over 70 passengers. [4]
Crossair Flight 3597 was a scheduled flight from Berlin Tegel Airport, Germany, to Zürich Airport, Switzerland.On 24 November 2001, the Crossair Avro RJ100 operating the route, registered as HB-IXM, [1] crashed into a wooded range of hills near Bassersdorf and caught fire.
British Hovercraft Corporation (BHC) was a British hovercraft manufacturer that designed and produced multiple types of vehicles for both commercial and civil purposes. [ 1 ] Created with the intention of producing viable commercial hovercraft in March 1966, BHC was the result of a corporate merger between the Saunders-Roe division of Westland ...
Hovercraft landing in Calais Boarding a Hovercraft with a vehicle. The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) [1] hovercraft (also known as the Mountbatten class hovercraft) was a combined passenger and vehicle-carrying class of hovercraft. [2] The type has the distinction of being the largest civil hovercraft to have ever been put into service.
BOAC Flight 712 was a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) service operated by a Boeing 707-465 from London Heathrow Airport bound for Sydney via Zurich and Singapore. . On Monday 8 April 1968, it suffered an engine failure on takeoff that quickly led to a major fire; the engine detached from the aircraft in flig
A photograph of the crashed Fairchild F-227 plane and the survivors, currently on display at a museum in Chile. (Elvis Gonzalez / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock) Society of the Snow (Netflix)
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 was the fatal crash of a Boeing 727 in the eastern United States on December 1, 1974 in Harriman State Park near Stony Point, New York, just north of the New York City area. The Northwest Airlines 727 had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts professional football team in Buffalo in western New York ...
British Hovercraft Corporation: Preceded by: SR.N5: General characteristics; Type: hovercraft: Displacement: 10.9 tons: Length: 17.78 m (58 ft 4 in) Beam: 7.97 m (26 ft 2 in) Height: 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in) on cushion: Propulsion: 1 Rolls-Royce Gnome turbine engines 1,050 hp (780 kW) for lift and propulsion driving single four-bladed variable-pitch ...