DIY - Get your angle grinder around this!

[Sam Plusnet]

And one of the interior photographs of that single completed vehicle shows lots & lots of (temporary) data recording devices in place. (See

- just over half way down the page)

That suggests it was a prototype and still in development when it got cancelled.

Since this thing operated in ground effect just above the water, at say

200 km/hr, I suspect that the vibration induced by flying over the waves would have shaken any loose filling out of your head. All the crew stations are extensively padded which suggests the same thing.

[polygonum]

Or that they were all certified...

[SteveW]

There was a suggestion many years ago to use something like it to cross the channel - the idea was to use radar to make sure there was a clear path across and then whizz over at four hundred miles an hour or more.

SteveW

[Steve Jones]

The very ground effect plane!