Piloting A Massive Unique Passenger Hovercraft | Rise Of The Machines

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  • Опубликовано: 20 янв 2018
  • This unique passenger hovercraft offers trips to those attending a sailing regatta on the Isle of Wight, find out about how the massive machine works!
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  • @unrulyphxntom4397
    @unrulyphxntom4397 4 года назад +22

    5:17 scared me
    thought it was breaking irl

  • @wb5plj
    @wb5plj 3 года назад +17

    Drama and high adventure. All things are death defying. Next time John puts on his shoes will he be able to tie the laces on time!

  • @Gargamoth
    @Gargamoth 3 года назад +4

    I like how the video showed the construction and inner workings. Also the captain was a pilot, I found that interesting, but they are flying. 👍

  • @WaterWorld1
    @WaterWorld1 4 года назад +18

    These new Hovercraft engines sound like coaches. In the good old days, the sound of the gas turbines was deafening - great for a teenage boy (me) but bad for the local residents!

    • @oliverlunn8235
      @oliverlunn8235 3 года назад +2

      I live in Portsmouth and i didn’t know till now that it is the LAST PASSENGER ONE RUNNING now I feel so privaliged and special to have been on it like 5 or 6 times and I’m under 16

  • @paulb6716
    @paulb6716 5 лет назад +42

    Never mind the dramatic music...can we hear more of the sound of the hovercraft?

    • @helenashton7610
      @helenashton7610 3 года назад

      P

    • @TheUphillracer
      @TheUphillracer 3 года назад +4

      Don’t these TV production companies over dramatise something the pilot does every day FGS. Interesting but they make it annoying too. Give me regular RUclipsrs any day both amateur and semi-professional

    • @yellowellerby
      @yellowellerby 3 года назад

      It is really load I was there

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад

      You don’t want to

    • @CrumpledSandwich
      @CrumpledSandwich 3 года назад +2

      And less of the narrator. The ship weighs the same as 18 Eiffel towers, and could block the hovercraft. Thankfully, the hovercraft is fitted with a steering mechanism.

  • @Noahomg313
    @Noahomg313 Месяц назад

    these hovercraft sail from where i live in portsmouth uk.

  • @kittikoko
    @kittikoko 3 года назад +1

    Really strange seeing the crowds for Cowes week after the year we've had in 2020!
    Amazing video - thanks to The Traininator for the link if you're here. 😊

    • @kittikoko
      @kittikoko 3 года назад +1

      Love all the unnecessary drama and ominous music. 😂

  • @Nmccarville
    @Nmccarville 6 лет назад +1

    Hi I am a huge combat Dealers Fan is their any way you could put more of them as they are freakishly hard to get a hold of in Canada thank you

  • @L_U-K_E
    @L_U-K_E 5 лет назад +5

    What type of hovercraft is that?

    • @L_U-K_E
      @L_U-K_E 5 лет назад +3

      UKWMO thanks

  • @foxtrot789
    @foxtrot789 10 месяцев назад

    Wow, who knew hovercraft travel was so intense and dramatic.

  • @heli-crewhgs5285
    @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +5

    Does the hovercraft carry ALL of the island's mail, or is it split with other vessels?

    • @oliverlunn8235
      @oliverlunn8235 3 года назад +1

      It doesn’t it’s used for passengers and the isle of white is quite small. Not many people live there (except for me lol )

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад +1

      Split between other vessels.

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +7

      oliver lunn: I know for a fact that the hovercraft transports mail. Each vessel even carries 'Royal Mail' graphics on the sides.

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +1

      _blue_pearlie _ Thank you.

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад +5

      @@oliverlunn8235 also how do you live on the Isle of Wight if you spelt Wight as white?

  • @lioncurlew
    @lioncurlew 2 года назад

    He spotted an enormous Cruise Ship..The tension.

  • @sebastianloecken8456
    @sebastianloecken8456 4 года назад +9

    No info on max Speed, Range, Manufacturer. Journalism to be improoved.

    • @spudspam5723
      @spudspam5723 3 года назад +4

      It was made by griffon hoverwork in Southampton, my dad was part of the team who built the new hovercrafts

    • @ElizabethWarrenYeahYeah
      @ElizabethWarrenYeahYeah 2 года назад +1

      @@spudspam5723 You & your Dad should be very proud. These are magnificent machines & hopefully they will stay in service for a long time to come. Personally I'd pay a lot of money for a return ticket, just to visit Ryde as a tourist. The locals deserve to have a reduced fare, but tourists like me will pay for the pleasure at least once in their lifetime.

  • @bobmartin7399
    @bobmartin7399 Год назад

    "Massive machine"? The hovercraft which used to cross the channel from Ramsgate were ten times bigger.

  • @pauljones8149
    @pauljones8149 2 года назад +1

    Such drama I nearly came in my pants !!!

  • @nilosantos4862
    @nilosantos4862 Год назад

    This vehicle have a high fuel consumption and by the way is not secure as this documentary show if the engine stop in that situation will be an terrible accident

  • @Gargamoth
    @Gargamoth 2 месяца назад

    This is the Same Ol $#!% since the SR-N4. Is any company building improvements? Its all old tech for commercial and military.

  • @millicentsquirrelhole582
    @millicentsquirrelhole582 3 года назад +1

    Ground Crew Manager Lee Marples had this to say about his missus, off camera:...'Bloody 'ell, Mate, she don' need no groun' crew an' she's a well oiled machine'...

  • @davidmyersretiredaerospace8038
    @davidmyersretiredaerospace8038 4 года назад +1

    My cousin invented it.

  • @brgsstm
    @brgsstm 3 года назад +3

    This is the world we live in now, ultra dramatisation of the mundane. Sigh 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @ozziepilot2899
    @ozziepilot2899 3 года назад

    The script is clearly designed to entertain young kids at school.

  • @soundfilet1373
    @soundfilet1373 4 года назад +2

    Drama

  • @chrisward7582
    @chrisward7582 Год назад +1

    Great machine, great company, great operation but what a load of tosh about the cruise ship. Embarrassing in that one regard 😂

  • @paulcooper8818
    @paulcooper8818 3 года назад +3

    Drama much?

  • @andrewofford1533
    @andrewofford1533 6 лет назад +12

    Shame it spends most of the time parked up and they have to use the olds ones, as its forever breaking down.............

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +5

      "Forever breaking down..." Bullshit! Unserviceabilities are an occasional occurrence, like with any machine. It's mainly rough seas that stop the hovercraft. You're talking through your arse!

    • @andrewofford1533
      @andrewofford1533 3 года назад +1

      @@heli-crewhgs5285 Well let me See, have you been let down, when trying to use them to get to your appointment at the Hospital........ There was apoint when they found the Fans had not been fitted correctly and they had to use one of the old ones. Not to mention ,the Time the Pilot passed out drunk mid travel......

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад +1

      @@heli-crewhgs5285 *claps*

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад

      @@andrewofford1533 that is LIFE.

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +4

      Andrew Offord: You claimed that the hovercraft was '...forever breaking down.' Now that you've been challenged, you use isolated, rare and sensational events, by way of proof, to bolster your exaggerations.
      Whilst I am sympathetic to the personal inconveniences that you may have experienced, you are wrong to use broad brush statements, in order to smear a company, and its dedicated staff, who are making a damn good effort to provide a vital service, that most people seem to appreciate.

  • @MrPants1970
    @MrPants1970 4 года назад +17

    What a completely over dramatised documentary, ridiculous.... lol 😂

    • @Joachim2012
      @Joachim2012 3 года назад +1

      I have to agree. I ever thought, that (and "football pitches" as a measuring unit) would be a typical problem with German documentaries. But now I see, it's an international phenomenon... :(

    • @bradd9401
      @bradd9401 3 года назад

      That cruise ship is not 3 footballs pitches in length either 😂

    • @2373stevieb
      @2373stevieb 3 года назад

      A Premiership football pitch is 105m in length. The Britannia is 330m in length, making her well over three football pitches in length. I live on the Isle of Wight and see these cruise ships come and go regularly.
      Let me tell you this. The USS George Bush, a Yankee flat top, was moored in Stokes bay off of Gosport. When the QM2 came passed she dwarfed the bloody aircraft carrier.

    • @Yaxrob
      @Yaxrob 5 месяцев назад

      😭🤣🤣

  • @timbrookes3699
    @timbrookes3699 3 года назад +10

    Where did they get the strange narrator from. Does anyone really speak like that. He is trying to instil drama where there is non. Very strange!!

    • @boroladcraig85
      @boroladcraig85 3 года назад +2

      Tony Hirst is quite a big narrator when it comes to documentaries. He’s also the voice of how it’s made in the U.K.

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +2

      Craig Cullinan: Yes, he's equally annoying in that too!

  • @itzz_mitch7191
    @itzz_mitch7191 5 лет назад +6

    Who here lives on the isle of Wight as I do

    • @UKWMO
      @UKWMO 5 лет назад +1

      itzz_mitch !!: I know a man who does!

    • @paulb6716
      @paulb6716 5 лет назад +1

      Born in Shanklin but my Dad moved us away years ago....still make a beeline to Ryde whenever I visit to watch the Hovercraft!

    • @Vegas-ej2xf
      @Vegas-ej2xf 4 года назад +1

      Meeeee

    • @joshsheekey5512
      @joshsheekey5512 4 года назад +1

      It really is the best place to wok been there since 2017 started as an apprentice and love it

    • @richiow68
      @richiow68 4 года назад

      Yep Sandown

  • @josephine.france5
    @josephine.france5 3 года назад

    UGH cowes week it really disrupts the hover (I would know)

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 3 года назад +1

      _blue_pearlie _ You should know how to write. Your comment is illiterate drivel.

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад

      @@heli-crewhgs5285 uhhh rude and where do you think I get my evidence from?

    • @TraceUK
      @TraceUK 3 года назад +1

      @@josephine.france5 Nobody knows what on earth you’re talking about.... Your original comment is not readable

    • @josephine.france5
      @josephine.france5 3 года назад +1

      @@TraceUK I’m going to assume you travel on the hovercraft every day? Correct me if I’m wrong...

  • @melvyncox3361
    @melvyncox3361 4 года назад +2

    Rush,rush,rush.Typical UK......

    • @melvyncox3361
      @melvyncox3361 3 года назад

      I have as it happens.This exact route many years ago.The hovercraft was the SRN6 l believe,and it was truly exhilarating,as you mention.l could have gone and looked in the cockpit,but being a shy young boy l didn't go.Regrets!

  • @tsport100
    @tsport100 Год назад

    Mock drama in documentaries is beyond annoying...

  • @mauersegler79
    @mauersegler79 Год назад

    why all the unnecessary drama...cant we just have a quiet documentary without music about a normal crossing? people who want action don´t watch documentaries anyway so you got your target audience mixed up...

  • @neilfurby555
    @neilfurby555 2 года назад +1

    The breathless excited commentary is just daft, ruins the video. Interesting visual tricks though, and some good camerawork.