SRN4 Hovercraft Princess Margaret at Dover summer 2000 - Escape From Thanet 2 highlights

Enhanced and edited footage from Escape From Thanet 2 - the first sequel to a home movie I shot in 2000. In this sequence, James Hall and myself return to Dover along with my other best freind, the artist Peter James.
This was Petes first exposure to the raw noise / power / smell of the SRN4s and he soon became as hooked as James and I. At the time, I was borrowing Petes Camcorder to film the Escape home movies, but he later requested it back to film the hovers himself on the day of the last flights. This footage has still yet to be seen (hint hint boys hehehe lol).
We were lucky enough to catch the SRN4's Princess Anne and Margaret during their final weeks of operation. Here we see GH2006 Princess Margaret arrive on the pad at Dover, then depart again for Calais.
The Princess Anne Footage will follow soon. Editing is underway on Escape From Thanet 5 (trailer elsewhere on here), but is slow going lol.
This footage has been audio and visually enhanced from original 8mm camcorder footage and converted ifrom 4:3 nto 16:9 aspect image. If only I had a camcorder 10 or 15 years earlier - or a camera for that matter!!!!
The English channel is no longer quite as vibrant now these two queens of the sea have been retired! They were transferred to The Hovercraft Museum in Lee-on-Solent after being pulled from duty. Truly an end of an era...... Hope you enjoy........

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Great way to cross the channel, did it twice and had lunch and duty free shopped in Boulogne