AIRCRAFT RECOVERY USING AIR CUSHION PLATFORMS

It has been repeatedly stated in aviation circles that with increasingly high traffic density at all major airports and rising costs of aircraft and service, two requirements are of crash: the recovery must be fast, especially if a runway is closed as a result of the crash; and secondary damage to the minimum. When examining these requirements, the air cushion platform with its high mobility over any surface and the level duty. Based on this supposition, the paper outlines the equipment, operational techniques, experience and future objectives of the use of air cushion platforms in aircraft recovery.

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

  Kalerghi Publications

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

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 103-109

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air cushion vehicles; Air transportation crashes; Airport capacity; Costs; Equipment; Mobility; Traffic density
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airspace capacity; Recovery
• Old TRIS Terms: Air cushion
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163486
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 1977 12:00AM