Features of 38-passenger river craft operating on air cushion, built by Leningrad Inst of Inland Water Transport; it consists of 2 floats connected by platform 17.5 m long and 6 m wide; floats and platform form plenum chamber under ship's hull; platform supports wheelhouse for crew of 2, engine compartment, and passenger compartments; smaller 5-seat Raduga (Rainbow), built at Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in Gorky has hull of riveted aluminum sheets 1.5 to 2 mm thick, length of 9.4 m and width of 4.12 m; jet system used for air cushion allows craft to hover within 150 mm above water and to use additional jet effect of air stream escaping from nozzle.


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    Title :

    ACVs in USSR


    Additional title:

    Air-Cushion Vehicles (Supp Flight)


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1962


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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