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=Computer Aided Design and Drawing II = Hover Craft Project

Many people worked on the idea of the hovercraft on over the years. Many claim to have created the hovercraft or Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) long before the SRN1 was built. The first commercial hovercraft both in name and design was the brainchild of the inventor Sir Christopher Cockrell. He achieved the one thing that everyone else was chasing and that was a working example of a hovering vehicle on a cushion of air. The first working example of a Hovercraft was shown in public in June 1959. The craft was called the Saunders Roe Nautical One or SRN1 for short.

The SRN1 however was not born without a lot of hard work and pain of Sir Christopher's part. He had a hard time convincing everyone that it was viable. He built a working model to show the principle and demonstrated this to many people before his concept was accepted and taken seriously. You can find out more about the background to the development of the modern Hovercraft in our section called **[|How It works -][|The Hovercraft]** and our book **[|'Discover the Hovercraft'] []** []