The Last Days of Oita Hover Ferry, Drifting Hover Craft

Oita Hover Ferry was the only passenger ferry service using hover craft in Japan. It had been connecting between Oita city center and Oita airport. Because of the Lehman shock recession and soaring fuel costs, the service discontinued in 2009. Since there was some sharp S curves near Oita airport, we could enjoy aggressively drifting hover ferries.

[@javiermiyai9234]

My family lives in the city of Oita and it was one of the things that excited me the most, crossing the bay.

[@joshsheekey5512]

The route is coming back

[@adolphusarthuro]

The first of the new ones (Baien) is arriving now 24/08/2023 - the BBC Sebastopol is just coming into Beppu Bay right now.

[@Gargamoth]

This video is four years old from the youtube debut of up loading, but Japan hasnt used this in many years since. I saw the video where this model was decomissioned.
The hovercraft needs to steer better. There should have been improvements by now.

[@wimdreesen7923]

The pilots were complaining about heavy oversteer 😉

[@EuropeanTrainDriver]

Sehr gut

[@lucywucyyy]

so cool

[@quantumx9729]

Now put it on the Nünberg Ring

[@lucywucyyy]

id love to see a small racing hovercraft on the nordschleife, itd be so cool

[@peterhealey2668]

Marvelous, what a great shame they scrapped them.