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HoverWorld Expo 2004 has been cancelled

With great regret, the World Hovercraft Organization and Australian Hovercraft Federation announces that the National Capital Authority in Canberra has declined the opportunity to stage HoverWorld Expo 2004, requiring the cancellation of this important event. Click here for details.

Photographs of the World's First Hovercraft Race.
The Canberra Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society Archive of historic photos shows a different view of the1964 event. The originals have been lost, but see photocopies of the originals.

 

Click on images for enlargements and descriptions:
Third place winner
Fastest hovercraft
Most ingenious hovercraft
Third Place Winner
Third place winner of the World's First Hovercraft Race
Fastest hovercraft

 
     

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