Air-Cushion Vehicle (ACV) is special-purpose machine, 35 ft long, with high maneuverability; application for agricultural spraying is stressed; crop-dusting airplane accounts for less than 10% of all crop spraying; remaining 90% is done by ground-based wheeled vehicles that are slower and crop-destroying; cost comparison is given of GEM (Ground Effect Machine) and two currently used conventional airplanes.
Air-cushion vehicles -- Their promise
Mech Eng
Mechanical Engineering ; 90 , n 5
1968
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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