Following a "comprehensive commercial review", at the start of the year, Hovertravel announced changes to its timetables.

This was no alien spacecraft, but the brainchild of Sir Christopher Cockerell, a brilliant British inventor whose revolutionary hovercraft design had been shrouded in mystery for years.

Hovercraft was the brainchild of British engineer and inventor, Christopher Cockerell, although earlier inventors had also drawn designs for air cushion vehicles. Cockerell came up with the idea ...