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# so a hovercraft
is falling slowly?

you are pulling my leg now, I can tell!
(Pouched_species, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:19, archived)
# no
a hover craft isn't technically hovering but floating

the sky divers just appear to hover
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:21, archived)
# So,
skydivers 'just appear' and then hover in skirts?
or
do hovercrafts float while hovering in a downward direction?
(Pouched_species, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:22, archived)
# argh
*bangs head on desk*

this isn't even my argument

/walks away
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:24, archived)
# jumping
leaving the ground for only short periods of time. Maybe hovercraft jump
(gamera, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:23, archived)
# I think you
have it!

wildheart was confusing me with skirted floating skydivers.

so, to round up,

hovercrafts jump up and down very fast and only 'look' like they are hovering! brilliant and yet another classic British invention!
(Pouched_species, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:27, archived)
# *grabs bat*
*stomps around looking for things to hit*
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:28, archived)
# Don't know what to snigger about
"The hovercraft was invented by Christopher Cockerell in 1956. The theory behind one of the most successful inventions of the 20th century, the Hovercraft, was originally tested in 1955 using an empty KiteKat cat food tin inside a coffee tin, an industrial air blower and a pair of kitchen scales"

The name Cockerell or the hovering kitekat cans?
(gamera, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 0:31, archived)