Cockerell, Christopher Sydney (1910–1999)
British engineer, designer, and inventor who rediscovered the hovercraft
principle and stimulated worldwide interest in the possibilities of the
air-cushion vehicle. During World War II Cockerell worked on the development
of radar and other radio aides. In 1948 he
started a boat-building business and in the early 1950s began research into
the development of air-cushion vehicles. By 1954 he had developed the hovercraft;
he filed his first patent in 1955. In 1959 the first SRN1 hovercraft crossed
the English Channel.
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