RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WORK ASSOCIATED WITH LIFT AND PROPULSION OF ACVS

Dowty Rotol have been involved with research work and the development of new concepts associated with lift and propulsion devices for ACVs for the last fifteen years. Not all this work has come to fruition, but the basic concepts are still of interest, and such concepts are dealt with, along with those ideas that have proceeded to the stage of entering civil or military service. The concepts that are covered in the paper are: plastic centrifugal lift fans, variable pitch centrifugal fans, cross-flow or tangential flow fans, high speed centrifugal fans for hovertrain, blade erosion protection methods, quiet propellers, ducted propulsion fans, plastic blades, multistage axial flow water jet units, and new aerofoil sections.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • International Hovering Craft, Hydrofoil and Advanced Transit System Conference, Brighton, Sussex, England, May 13-16, 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Kalerghi Publications

  51 Welbeck Street
  London W1,   England 
• Authors:
  • Russell, J G
• Conference:
  • International Hovering Craft, Hydrofoil and Advanced Transit System Conference, Brighton, Sussex, England, May 13-16, 1974.
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 281-290

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air cushion vehicles; Electric power plants; Performance; Propellers; Propulsion; Ships; Surface effect ships
• Old TRIS Terms: Air cushion technology; Hovercraft propellers; Power plant performance
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00135855
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 13 1976 12:00AM