Regrettably, I won't be attending this year or probably ever again. I'm away in France mid-May and then gearing up to emigrate to warmer climes in November so there'll be no more trips scheduled before I go.
Shame I never got around to bringing a craft to Loch Fyne but working away most of the time makes it hard to prepare.

In the meantime, I'll be selling everything so there will a lot of hovercraft bits for sale in the months ahead.
Hope you all have a great time and the weather is as good as it was last year.

Showing its poor construction. It looks like a piece of junk.

It Looks like Von Mercier gave up on Hover Craft!!!!
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I have just joined this group and I am enjoying the read. My name is Alan Wright and I was one of the two designers of the Hover-Air HoverHawk and the craft that came after it. I was with Michael Hart who unfortunately passed away just over a year ago. I had helped with some aerodynamic issues and Mick and I saw the opportunity to design a new craft that was based on a fibreglass shell rather that the plywood that had been used before. I was hired in 1966 by Lady Brassey at the Crowland facility. We designed the HoverHawk and then had the hard job of getting it past Lady Brassey and her son Charles Westmoreland. I enjoyed my time there and was very sorry when Lady Brassey was forced to close the company down.
I emigrated to Canada as an Engineer. I now live in Ontario and I am planning to go to see the craft that is in the Winnipeg RCMP museum later this year. My daughter was there last year.

I have one of those pulse chargers, have revived one or two of my batteries.