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Hoverspeed was a ferry company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005. It was formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd.Its last owners were Sea Containers; the company ran a small fleet of two high-speed SeaCat catamaran ferries in its final year.
No significant capabilities ready on time; would have cost $1.1bn more just to get to 1/4 of the original scope. $1.1bn Outsourced – including requirements Cancelled 2007 2012 da:Polsag: Police case management Denmark: Police: Did not work properly, technical problems with contractor. DKK 500m ($70m) Outsourced Cancelled 2007 2014 e-Borders
Hovertravel is now the world's oldest hovercraft operator, [1] and this service is believed to be unique in western Europe. [2] Hovertravel describes itself as "the world's only year-round passenger hovercraft service" [ 3 ] (although there is a regular winter-only operator in Estonia [ 4 ] ).
On 6 April 1966, Hoverlloyd commenced operations from Ramsgate Harbour to Calais Harbour, operated the SR.N6 hovercraft while awaiting the completion of the considerably larger SR.N4 ferries. In addition to competing with traditional ferries, it had a fierce rivalry with hovercraft operator Seaspeed , which also operated SR.N4s on the cross ...
These drastically increased towards the end of the decade with British Rail continuing to guarantee operations. [15] Seaspeed recorded a pre-tax loss of -£599,000 in 1977 and -£2,234,000 in 1978, then -£2,900,000 in 1980 and -£1,423,000 in 1981 when the company ceased trading and merged with Hoverlloyd.
HSC Hoverspeed France at Dover in 1992. Caldera Vista was launched as Hoverspeed France for Sea Containers, for use with Hoverspeed, in 1991; and operated as the Sardegna Express on charter, before returning to Hoverspeed as the SeaCat Boulogne.
The HSC High Speed Jet is a 74 m (243 ft) ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for Hoverspeed and currently owned by Seajets.In 1990, as Hoverspeed Great Britain, she took the Hales Trophy for the fastest eastbound transatlantic journey, making the run, without passengers, in three days, seven hours and fifty-four minutes, averaging 36.6 knots (67.8 km/h; 42.1 mph).
In computer programming, loop-invariant code consists of statements or expressions (in an imperative programming language) that can be moved outside the body of a loop without affecting the semantics of the program. Loop-invariant code motion (also called hoisting or scalar promotion) is a compiler optimization that performs this movement ...