Concentrate!

You know what it's like. 

You come out of the Supermarket into the car park and say: "OK, think everyone. Can anyone remember where we parked the hovercraft?"







This is the magnificent Princess Margaret SRN4 Hovercraft, one of the largest of her type, parked at the Hovercraft Museum in Lee on Solent. 

The SRN4 dates from the late sixties, a period when Britain was spending money on high profile projects such as TSR2 and Concorde in an attempt to keep up with the big players at the top table. Most of these prestige endevours were cancelled or lost money, but they made us Brits feel good.

These days we don't embark on such foolishness, instead we sell our very infrastructure to other countries in order to pay the bills.


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