Wheelless landing gear consists of inflatable nylon/natural rubber/neoprene bag in form of doughnut with hole in center; jets of air flow inward toward hole and create air cushion to hold craft off ground; in test airplane (gross weight 2400 lb), required air pressure was 50 psf or less than 0.5 psi; air cushion landing gear airplane can use open water, ice, snow, swampland, sand, or dirt for runway; only actual disembarking and terminal area would have to be concrete, for use by service vehicles.
Air cushion landings are `smooth as silk'
Rubber Development
Rubber Developments ; 21 , n 2
1968
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
NTIS | 1972
British Library Online Contents | 1995
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1947
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1935
|