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Can hovercrafts fly over water

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Greenstar54

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Hovercrafts float above a bubble of air formed between the skirt of the hover craft and the surface it is floating over. As long as the surface does not allow the air pressure used to form the bubble to escape from under the hovercraft too quickly it will float over any surface whether it be water, land, or cobblestones. For example it could not float over a drainage grate or with its skirt severely punctured.

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