Please also visit our online shop for all you hovercraft building needs :-

http://www.vortexservices.net/

 We are pleased to anounce that we have entered into an agreement with :-  

‘Skandinavisk Hovercraft Center’

This is a new business venture based in Denmark, they will be offering corporate style activities. They have now taken delivery of 4 craft as part of a 16 craft order. The craft design is the 2008 Vortex Storm with a Briggs & Stratton V Twin engine modified to produce 32hp. The fan has been slowed down and the exhaust system improved, the result is a very quiet craft, initial readings are only 74dba @ 25 metres, well within the very tight noise regulations for Denmark. More news to follow..... 

We have also recently supplied Scott Tilley a well known F2 Racing Driver with his new hull for 2008, he selected the PREDATOR to be the hull in which he will be chasing for honours in the 2008 UK Championship as well as the 'Worlds' event in Sweden later this year. We wish him every success.

 UK and European distributor for

Retail sales for top line racing oil company,    

Full range of S&B air filtre now stocked

All these products and a full range shown on our online website will be available at all UK race meeting, in our ever expanding shop

VORTEX HISTORY

The VORTEX range of Hovercraft first appeared in the early 1980's.The designer has been involved with Hovercrafts since 1974 and has raced in F3, F2, F1 and F35.

 During that time he has finished in the top 3 in each formula in Britain and Europe. Whilst working as a Design & Technology Teacher at Bradfield College he took the College Racing Team to 1st place for two consecutive years, the craft was one of first to use one engine driving a thrust fan and a lift fan via a 90deg gearbox.

 The designer has been a major exponent of the use of HIGH PRESSURE BAG SKIRTS, this system as well as giving a very stable ride is also very efficient on the use of the available lift air. Initial forward resistance, normally associated with bag skirts, is reduced due to the single contact skirt edge.

The 'performance' photographs on this web site are not ‘film set posed’ pictures, but actual photographs of the various crafts in the environment for which they were designed.

THE BOSS