Hovercraft Racing! 🤩 #hovercraft #racing #vehicles | Supercar Blondie

Bored of wheels? Time to hover into summer with this quirky sport. 🛸 Hovercraft racing in Dunfermline, Scotland, is fast, loud, and completely off the ground. 💨 Tag someone you would challenge to a hovercraft race in the comments. 🏆 📍 Craigluscar Activities, Dunfermline, Scotland #Hovercraft #Hovercraftracing #Sport #SportBritain #Adrenalinejunkie #Thrillseeker #Scotland #ThingstodoScotland #Dunfermline VisitScotland Craigluscar Activities | Love GREAT Britain

No, it’s not a UFO – but it does look like one! This was the test flight of ‘Avrocar’ – a secret US Airforce hovercraft project developed in the 1950s during the early years of the Cold War. With a diameter of 18ft (5.5 meters) and weight of over 3,000 lbs (1,361 kg), it was hoped the flying-saucer-shaped craft could travel at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour at high altitudes, though it managed neither. The underside of the vehicle featured a massive ‘turborotor’, effectively a giant fan po