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Writer seeks a lift for his Shropshire hovercraft research

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Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 30, 2019
Aviation and space curator Rénald Fortier, known for his quirky and conversational blog posts on the Ingenium Channel, recently piqued the interest of a UK-based journalist. Fortier contacted the Shropshire Star in the hopes of finding out more information about a hovercraft maker from the 60s, so Toby Neal decided to share his plight with readers of the newspaper.

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