Christopher Cockerell [SEP] place of death
Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1971.
Later life.
In later life, Cockerell developed many other improvements to the hovercraft, and invented various other applications for the air cushion principle, such as the hovertrain.
He attended many hovercraft related events, such as the unveiling of many hoverports across the United Kingdom.
After a short illness, Christopher Cockerell died at Hythe, Hampshire on 1 June 1999.
Other work.
In later life Cockerell developed the Cockerell Raft, a wave power hydraulic
Cockerell Peninsula
Cockerell Peninsula () is a bulb-shaped peninsula covered in ice, located between Lafond Bay and Huon Bay on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville. It was named in 1977 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British pioneer of the hovercraft.