SHOALWATER BAY TRAINING AREA, Australia — Hovercraft packed with troops and armored vehicles zoomed onto a beach during the culminating event of Talisman Sabre, a massive exercise involving 30,000 ...

CHRIS Pritchard hovers low — very low — over Broome, during his ride on Australia’s only hovercraft holiday. Mind you, it’s appropriate as hovercraft do fly – even if slowly, and only a few ...

It may feel as if we are flying but we are on a hovercraft above the rich mudflats of Broome’s Roebuck Bay, an area eight times the size of Sydney Harbour and so abundant in critters that it was ...

Things are on the up and up for Australia's small band of recreational hovercraft enthusiasts as they prepare for their biannual rally at Lake Bonney in South Australia next month.

An Australian inventor tinkering in his garage has created a flying motorcycle he calls a "hoverbike," which he estimates can reach speeds of 170 miles per hour and an altitude of 10,000 feet.

The 60-year-old was tinkering with the engine at Wedderburn Airport, southwest of Sydney, on Friday morning when its seven-blade propeller began spinning. The force of the impact on the man's head and ...