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My Dad was having a tidy out of some cupboards and found a scrapbook I made of a family holiday we went on in 1978.

We went on a day trip to Calais on one of the SR.N4 hovercraft.

All I remember is when it started of going up like being in a lift and how incredibly noisy it was.

I pasted the ticket in the scrapbook, £32.50 return for 2 adults and 3 kids

Never see the likes of them again.

 

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And talking of machines we will never see again reminded me that my older brother went on a pleasure flight on Concorde.

I'm envious he did that as that would have been an experience of a lifetime.

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Saw a US Marines one of those in the Persian Gulf a few years back. Their assault ships use them instead of old fashioned landing craft. Stealthy they are not as you can hear them coming from miles away. Bloody fast though.

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“I pasted the ticket in the scrapbook, £32.50 return for 2 adults and 3 kids

Never see the likes of them again”


Not quite Calais but you could recreate the experience for almost the same price :lol: https://www.hovertravel.co.uk/special-offers/30-family-day-return/

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