The Saunders-Roe SR.N1 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 1) was the first practical hovercraft. The concept has its origins in the work of British engineer and inventor...
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Hovercraft (section SR.N1)
This unit carried out trials on the SR.N1 from Mk1 through Mk5 as well as testing the SR.N2, SR.N3, SR.N5 and SR.N6 craft. The Hovercraft Trials Unit...
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regarded as the prototype for commercial hovercraft, following on from the SR.N1 research craft. It was demonstrated on the Saint Lawrence River, Canada...
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Chatham Railway (SECR), and later operated for the Southern Railway (SR). The N1 was a development of the basic principles established by the Great Western...
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car-carrying hovercraft was 22 minutes, recorded by the Princess Anne MCH SR-N4 Mk3 on 14 September 1995, The first aircraft to cross the Channel was a...
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Massey Shaw Mincarlo Pyronaut Raven Ross Revenge Ross Tiger Royal Iris SR.N1 Sundowner Tern The Second Snark Tower Belle Western Belle Canal vessels...
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the SR N1 class prototype, designed by one of Maunsell's assistants, ex-GWR engineer Harold Holcroft. The class was to supersede the production of N1 class...
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was designated the SR.N1 (Saunders-Roe – Nautical One) and was manufactured under licence from the NRDC. On 11 June 1959, the SR.N1 was first shown to...
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SRN1 may refer to: SR-N1, the first practical hovercraft SR N1 class, a class of locomotives Radical-nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SRN1), a type...
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through the National Research Development Corporation the experimental SR.N1 vehicle proved the hovercraft concept by the end of the 1950s. By late 1964...
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skirt shy of being one of the world's first hovercraft, the Saunders Roe SR.N1 also taking off in 1959. Nevertheless, company designer John Frost applied...
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Massey Shaw Mincarlo Pyronaut Raven Ross Revenge Ross Tiger Royal Iris SR.N1 Sundowner Tern The Second Snark Tower Belle Western Belle Canal vessels...
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pioneering new form of transportation, in the form of the experimental SR.N1 vehicle, which became widely known as the hovercraft. By 1964, Saunders-Roe...
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Massey Shaw Mincarlo Pyronaut Raven Ross Revenge Ross Tiger Royal Iris SR.N1 Sundowner Tern The Second Snark Tower Belle Western Belle Canal vessels...
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project (Black Knight) and in the development of practical hovercraft (SR.N1) Maurice Brennan was born in April 1913, at Muswell Hill, London. He was...
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Massey Shaw Mincarlo Pyronaut Raven Ross Revenge Ross Tiger Royal Iris SR.N1 Sundowner Tern The Second Snark Tower Belle Western Belle Canal vessels...
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Research Development Corporation to Christopher Cockerell's design, the SR.N1. In the same year Saro's helicopter and hovercraft interests were taken...
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vessel, USS Nautilus, a submarine, is launched. 1956 – Demonstration of SR.N1, first modern hovercraft by Christopher Cockerell. 1957 Sputnik 1 – First...
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pioneering new form of transportation, embodied in the form of the experimental SR.N1 vehicle, which became widely known as the hovercraft. British manufacturer...
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Srn may refer to: SR.N (Saunders-Roe Nautical), a series of hovercraft produced by Saunders-Roe: SR.N1, the first modern hovercraft SR.N2, the first hovercraft...
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