Steve @st9v.com · Nov 22 Today I learned that the first hovercraft was invented by a New Jersey man in the '50s and it was so good that he couldn't get a patent on because the Pentagon didn't want how it worked to be published. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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The maiden flight was right off of Sparta Stanhope Road in Sparta, NJ on Beisers Pond. There isn't a plaque or anything and nobody around here even knows that. I recommend Charles Fletcher's book; 'A Quest for Survival', it is very well written. -J.F.