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.
ACVs in USSR
Air-Cushion Vehicles (Supp Flight)
Air-Cushion Vehicles ; 1 , n 5
1962
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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