hovercraft

There rare cases where hovercraft are the most appropriate means of transport.

To overburden an analogy, it'd be more like complaining that your tank doesn't have wheels[0], or your hovercraft.

Maybe it is just the game play (this kind of hovercraft may be supposed to react with a delay).

Salt can and does get brought down into the hovercraft but it shouldn't get brought into the engine directly.

One of the reasons cited for hovercraft disappearing from many applications is the increased maintenance costs relative to normal ferries.

If you built a hovercraft, it would destroy the car market, and everyone would expect that.

I'm trapped in a world before later on I'm trapped in a world before later on Where's my hovercraft?

It was based on their previous title, Catacombs 3D, which was itself based on the tech of another previous title called Hovercraft 3D.

The skirt on a hovercraft is just rubber-like material bolted together, there are no moving parts in there, it just inflates (and, yes, salt does eat away at it badly).

This is like an inefficient hovercraft, with the ground effect in play.

It uses an electric hovercraft in an soft-vacuum sealed tube that is integral to the design in order to achieve high speeds for intercity travel.

Externally this thing has far more mechanical joints than a hovercraft.

Heck, I've encountered one just today while looking at the slides for "fedmsg - The Fedora Infrastructure Message Bus" [1]; the tool is named hovercraft [2].

Similarly, I might say "I used John's hovercraft to hide the fact (from my date) that mine was full of eels."

"they basically built a rocket-powered hovercraft, something that's never been done before" They basically built a retro-rocket¹.

I realize there are all sorts of issues with regard to practicality, but I can't help but think, "I might just get my Star Wars hovercraft after all."

Hovercraft don't have too many exposed moving parts.