Wing-in-ground effect air cushion vehicle

Details Wing-in-ground effect air cushion vehicle Wing-in-ground effect air cushion vehicle

1986-05-02

1987-04-28

Love, John J.

Motor vehicles

Surface effect vehicles

Having propulsion or control means

114 67A, 180121, 180126, 244 23R, 244100A, 244101, B63B 138

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046606700

ABSTRACT:
An air-cushion vehicle of the type having a flat rigid platform with rigid longitudinal walls attached to the platform. In such an air-cushion vehicle a plurality of transverse trough-shaped skirts are provided so as to form a space bounded by the skirt and the platform which, when supplied with higher pressure air, serves to provide an air cushion chamber. The vertical height of the air cushion chamber can be varied in accordance with the present invention by extending or retracting the material of the trough-shaped skirts by way of an adjustment mechanism. In a preferred embodiment, the adjustment mechanism comprises a skirt bar attached to each of two longitudinal edges of the skirt and a mechanism for moving the skirt bars sideways closer together or further apart, thus varying the skirt's vertical dimension.

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