Year: 1972 Language: English Author: Larsen E. Genre: Technical literature Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 64 Description: Is it a ship or an aircraft? Strange new means of transport have sprung up in our time, but none stranger than hovercraft and hydrofoils. We are not even quite sure how to classify them-the air-cushion vehicle (as the hovercraft is called in technical language) flies above the water and the ground like a bird, but can't rise more than a few feet; the winged or legged boat-the hydrofoil-almost leaves the water, but cannot move without it. These surface-skimming craft (another technical term) have opened a new world of inventive imagination to our transport designers. We shall probably travel in air-cushion vehicles at high speed over land as we already do over the water; aero-trains, hovercars, giant ocean-going hydrofoil ships are in the offing, and air-cushion techniques have been ntroduced in medicine and industry. Oddly enough, even a combination of hovercraft and hydrofoil boat is being developed.
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Hovercraft & Hydrofoils Work Like This
Language: English
Author: Larsen E.
Genre: Technical literature
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 64
Description: Is it a ship or an aircraft? Strange new means of transport have sprung up in our time, but none stranger than hovercraft and hydrofoils. We are not even quite sure how to classify them-the air-cushion vehicle (as the hovercraft is called in technical language) flies above the water and the ground like a bird, but can't rise more than a few feet; the winged or legged boat-the hydrofoil-almost leaves the water, but cannot move without it. These surface-skimming craft (another technical term) have opened a new world of inventive imagination to our transport designers. We shall probably travel in air-cushion vehicles at high speed over land as we already do over the water; aero-trains, hovercars, giant ocean-going hydrofoil ships are in the offing, and air-cushion techniques have been ntroduced in medicine and industry. Oddly enough, even a combination of hovercraft and hydrofoil boat is being developed.
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