air-cushion vehicle

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Recent Examples of air-cushion vehicle That's what an air-cushion vehicle rides on. Wallace Cloud, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for air-cushion vehicle
Noun
  • The aircraft has kept a vital spot in the Air Force for two main reasons, Birkey said.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • The system focuses on detecting and identifying Class 1 drones, which are among the smallest categories of military and commercial unmanned aircraft.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Albanian naval officer Bamir Kundreti, who is 56 years old, lived with his family on Sazan for eight years after 1991 as a torpedo boat commander.
    Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • On August 2nd of that year, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ladov envisions building additional vertiports around the region so that folks living in, say, Montclair, New Jersey, could hitch a ride in an air taxi for their daily commute.
    Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026
  • Joby completed a piloted electric air taxi flight across San Francisco Bay and around the Golden Gate Bridge in March to kick off the tour, showcasing its aircraft, which is designed to carry a pilot and four passengers at speeds up to 200 mph, with a range of about 150 miles.
    Randy Tucker, USA Today, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • In the Pacific, by the end of World War II, at least 212 PT boats had gotten into the fight.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The PT boat became the bomber squadron of 15 bombers and their crews that Bentsen commanded at age 23.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Earlier this week, Kpler estimated around 220 tankers and 500 ships were stranded in the Persian Gulf.
    Lou Robinson, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • Mach Industries has won a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract to develop a long-range unmanned aircraft designed to launch from austere locations and ships without large flight decks.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Emergency officials said the vessel — a Sever-750 airboat designed to travel across both ice and water — capsized just offshore with 18 people aboard.
    Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2026
  • Follow a swamp airboat swerving along a Louisiana bayou.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • One of his planes was in trouble.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • The day before, 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • The hovercraft tragedy underscores the rapidly changing weather conditions, dangerous waves and strong winds associated with Lake Baikal, reports indicated.
    Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2026
  • Tourist guide Natalya owns the hovercraft.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026

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“Air-cushion vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-cushion%20vehicle. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.

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