It's been doing that since 1965 when there was no hoverport.

气垫船从1965年开始运营，那时候还没有气垫船码头。

The pneumatic boat can hold five people at the very most.

这条气垫船最多只能坐五个人。

What is a hovercraft riding on when it is in motion

当气垫船在运动时，骑气垫船最佳方式是什么？

What is a hovercraft riding on when it is in motion?

气垫船运动时依靠是什么？

This Ernie did, fanning Nick along like a silent black hovercraft.

厄尼照办了，扇着尼克朝前走，像一艘没有声色气垫船。

Since that time, various types of hovercraft have appeared and taken up regular service.

从那以后，各种各样气垫船出现了，并开始了定期航行服务。

An early hovercraft stands with a fleet of submersibles and a truck that once roamed the Antarctic.

还有一艘早期气垫船，一排潜水器，和一辆曾经驰骋于南极洲卡车。

Later it crossed the Channel, riding smoothly over the waves, which presented no problem.

后来气垫船跨越英吉利海峡，平衡地在波浪上方行驶，波浪不再产生阻力。

The main purpose is to show how hovercrafts work, and how things hover around on just a cushion of air.

主要目是展示气垫船是如何工作，在气垫上是如何来回运动。

Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

本世纪已研制出许多奇交通工具，其中最奇要数气垫船了。

Part ship and part airplane, they were once heralded as the future of travel, but today they've almost disappeared.

一半是船一半是飞机，气垫船曾被视为未来旅行必需品，但如今却几乎绝迹了。

That private hovercraft will ever be popular, I rather doubt.

私人气垫船永远不会流行，我很怀疑。

Gliding seamlessly across land and water on top of a cushion of air, hovercraft are versatile machines unlike any other.

气垫船能在陆地和水面上无缝滑行，是与众不同多功能交通工具。

The skirts will lift the hovercraft to around a meter and a half off of the surface.

气垫把气垫船提升到离水面约1.5米高度。

Imagine if we could design the hovercraft wheelchair.

想象一下， 如果我们可以设计气垫船轮椅。

Rather more practical, and of much more immediate importance, will be ground-effect vehicles, or hovercraft.

更实用、更直接重要是地效飞行器或气垫船。

They were expecting that one day it would replace ocean liners.

当时人们以为气垫船有一天能取代远洋客轮。

Position then to Sir Christopher Cockerell came up with the hovercraft in the 1950s'.

20世纪50年代，克里斯托弗·科克雷尔爵士发明了气垫船。

After being retired in 2000, what remained of the cross-channel giants came to rest here at the Hovercraft Museum.

在2000年退役后，剩下跨海峡巨型气垫船们都安置在这里气垫船博物馆。

Really the golden age of the hovercraft were the 80's.

气垫船真正黄金时代是80年代。