http://www.cc-issoire.com/Issoire-Nautique.html
http://www.facebook.com/issoire.nautique

You can drive yourself a hovercraft.

End of 2008 resold hovercraft, because : long delay for spare parts from Reaction international (hovpod), too noisily for the country.

Down in 2012

French association from aéroglisseur services compagny.

Near Marne la Vallée Disney Resort.

Email : airdeglisse@free.fr.

Web site : http://www.airdeglisse.org

The Anjou Aéroglisseurs club is very active in France.
They organized the World Championship 2006.

- Atlantique Aéroglisseurs

12 rue de la grenouillère
44710 PORT St PERE
Tel. 02 40 31 50 95

http://www.mairie-port-saint-pere.fr/spip.php?article392

http://www.mairie-port-saint-pere.fr/spip.php?article547

Free hovercraft plan since 1994


2001-2004 -> aeroloire.free.fr

1994-2002 -> altern.org/aeroloire

Near Cognac and Bordeaux.
CHARENTE AEROGLISSEURS.
Date : 22 mars 1999.
email:aerogli@wanadoo.fr
tel: 05 45 23 73 61

Web site: http://charente.aeroglisseur.googlepages.com

Déclaration à la préfecture de la Haute-Garonne. HOVERGREEN’S.
Objet : pratique et enseignement de l’aéroglisseur. Siège social :

31500 Toulouse.

Date de la déclaration : 2 juin 1998.

Courriel: P3SSS@aol.com

Near the old Calais Hoverport.
GLISS’MANIA.

Email : marck-aeroglisseur@live.fr

Normandie Aérogliss'Eure
Jean-François BERRY
11 Passage de la Penthièvrerie
78210 SAINT CYR L'ECOLE
Tél: 01 83 45 83 77

e-mail: jfberry@numericable.fr

This club organizes every year in August the "Raid Rhône ", a trip about 600 km with hovercraft.

The company Ackerman Industrie builds hovercrafts since more than 20 years.
They built the famous ADOC serie, which the "Formule France" model won the World Championship in 1989 in the United States (Formula 3).

Autotract Aéroglisseurs develops the Zéphir hovercraft intended for calm cruising and for the raid.

This company does not have any Internet site. The link points towards a page of the site of the Rhône Alpes Motonautique club which presents the various models of Zéphir.

M.PREVOSTAT provide consulting and is official distributor of several product for French speaking countries.


End in 2018

Slider in Europe

The Société Modeleur Maquettiste d'Anjou (S2MA) develops RC models, calm cruising hovercrafts, and the Sirius, a race hovercraft who was World Champion in 2004 (Formula 2).

SRN6 hovercraft into FSX software.

LCAC a big hovercraft

More Light hovercraft

Flight Simulator in action.

A vision-based autopilot for a miniature air vehicle: Joint speed control and lateral obstacle avoidance
Article (PDF Available) in Autonomous Robots 25(1):103-122 · August 2008 with 275 Reads 
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-007-9069-0 · Source: DBLP
Cite this publication

Julien Serres

22.34Aix-Marseille Université

D. Dray
Franck Ruffier

29.19Aix-Marseille Université CNRS

Nicolas Henri Franceschini
33.6Institute of Movement Science (Aix-Marseille University and CNRS)

Abstract
In our project on the autonomous guidance of Micro-Air Vehicles (MAVs) in confined indoor and outdoor environments, we have developed a vision based autopilot, with which a miniature hovercraft travels along a corridor by automatically controlling both its speed and its clearance from the walls. A hovercraft is an air vehicle endowed with natural roll and pitch stabilization characteristics, in which planar flight control systems can be developed conveniently. Our hovercraft is fully actuated by two rear and two lateral thrusters. It travels at a constant altitude (∼2 mm) and senses the environment by means of two lateral eyes that measure the right and left optic flows (OFs). The visuo-motor control system, which is called LORA III (Lateral Optic flow Regulation Autopilot, Mark III), is a dual OF regulator consisting of two intertwined feedback loops, each of which has its own OF set-point and controls the vehicle’s translation in one degree of freedom (surge or sway). Our computer-simulated experiments show that the hovercraft can navigate along a straight or tapered corridor at a relatively high speed (up to 1 m/s). It also reacts to any major step perturbations in the lateral OF (provided by a moving wall) and to any disturbances caused by a tapered corridor. The minimalistic visual system (comprised of only 4 pixels) suffices for the hovercraft to be able to control both its clearance from the walls and its forward speed jointly, without ever measuring speed and distance. The non-emissive visual sensors and the simple control system developed here are suitable for use on MAVs with a permissible avionic payload of only a few grams. This study also accounts quantitatively for previous ethological findings on honeybees flying freely in a straight or tapered corridor.
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POLAR Knowledge Canada has a requirement for the purchase of two (2) hovercrafts, for field research during the shoulder season to be delivered to the Polar Continental Shelf Program, 2464 Sheffield Ottawa, Ontario before March 31, 2020 with the option to purchase one (1) additional hovercraft, accessories and on-site training before March 31, 2021. These hovercrafts would allow researchers to work in areas that are otherwise unreachable due to unsafe lake, river or ice conditions.

Abstract The contribution of this project is the synthesis of a linear controller and non-linear for a hovercraft (ACV). The latter has a symmetric and a rigid structure. A mathematical modeling of the dynamics of the translation and rotation of this robot has been carried out; our system is 3 degrees of freedom with two independent variables: x, y that defines the position and a third variable that describes the orientation. The linear and non-linear controllers are of type: PID and backstepping based on the theory of Lyapunov as well as the Fuzzy logic. The potential field method was used to plan the trajectory of the ACV while avoiding the obstacles; the developed controllers were applied on the generated trajectory

Archive

http://lego.nico.free.fr/lego-aerotrain.htm

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Hoveraid

Coanda by naudin

French flymo story

http://hovercraft62.skyrock.com/

All about Bertin Naviplane and Aerotrain.

- hovercraft SRN1 -cushion air vehicle - Hoverport - BHC SRN 4 - BHC SRN 6 - Naviplane N500 - naviplane N300 « Baie des Anges »

port Dielette

Naviplane N300

Naviplane N500

TPE - french school exercise

Easy, simple need to visit.

Tornado original propulsion:

http://airbug.one.free.fr/aeroglisseur/page_01.htm

French article of hovercraft model.

Whitout skirt

Video format Mpg (1.4 mega).

Design from Øyvind Steinnes in Norway (Europa).

Very nice idea all in LEGO

From Paul Kleniewski from Polonia (Europa).

Examples Simple.

Naviplane N300 DEPRON.

His name is "Tïtïra’ina".

The "Model Hovercraft Association" website, with a lot of technical data.

THE famous Mark Porter's website, about his RC models.
Here you will find plans to build a Griffon 2000 TDX, a simple model, working very well.

A P20 model, built with Gabriel Vernier's plans published in the Système D newspaper in 1986.

See also http://rouzeau.net

Barbecue fan

Site dedicated to the RC hovercraft models construction.
Here you will find a lot of informations, photos and building experience sharing.

Taiyo Hovercraft Toy Custom

Marcin Lipinski
Poduszkowiec

Hovercraft for young school by Georges Charpak, Nobel Price of physique 1992

Hard paper hovercraft

Step by step.
(DivX) (Aeroglisseurs.avi) 45.73 Mo

Marine or CTBX in french, all ISO norm

French Multi-Wing distributor.

Lot of kits

Several links to microlight engine providers.

For the Wankel rotary nostalgics !

Two home build craft from free plan

Picture from Bill Wilcox builder.




The front modification is not a good idea, too large

Vladimir build his craft with free hovercraft plan.

Team Hoverblade

Pictures about a Tornado Pointed (sharp version).

Master web site : www.hovercraft.tk

Some photos : Photos

Some video : Video

Pictures about a Tornado Pointu

Master web site : www.hovercraft-project.tk

Some photos : Photos

A video : Video

Kawasaki Z440 LTD into a hovercraft

Two Tornados old version

- white with bag skirt
- white and yellow with segmented skirt

Not pointed version

Thank you Michel

Hazard Found.

Nice big Tornado 5 meter by 3 meter.

Hoverblade NL team Video

Pointed version of Tornado in fiber glasse

Lift: 4.5 HP
Proplusion: 20 HP

All 4 stroke engines

Hovercraft in paperboard. Box board : 100% ready

Solid-works plan

Defender land rover hovercraft

Photos and videos with a "Tornado Pointu".

Near REIMS and DEAUVILLE

On You Tube web, hundreds of video footages with hovercrafts