I am speechless.
This whole article could have come straight out of a cyberpunk role-playing game book from the 80s. Shadowrun has fewer preposterous sentences in it than this article because it is fantasy and did not God damn CNN.
It is a testament to the pull of "flying" anything that a $150k hovercraft incapable of breaking ground effect for a single minute of its ten-minute flight time is not only on CNN, it's on CNN for conning a sovereign government into paying for it.