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REMF-195 Design and Fabrication of High-Performance Hovercraft

The document discusses the design and fabrication of a high-performance hovercraft prototype. It aims to develop a hovercraft that has full basic hovercraft functions using suitable lightweight materials. Experience from seaplanes was valuable for selecting materials that can withstand saltwater corrosion. Further research is recommended to improve the craft's efficiency. The hovercraft floats on a cushion of air supplied by lift fans. It relies on maintaining a stable air cushion to provide sufficient lift and uses a skirt to contain the air cushion and allow travel over varied terrain. Advantages of hovercraft include wildlife research, transportation, fishing, military uses, and entertainment.

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REMF-195 Design and Fabrication of High-Performance Hovercraft

The document discusses the design and fabrication of a high-performance hovercraft prototype. It aims to develop a hovercraft that has full basic hovercraft functions using suitable lightweight materials. Experience from seaplanes was valuable for selecting materials that can withstand saltwater corrosion. Further research is recommended to improve the craft's efficiency. The hovercraft floats on a cushion of air supplied by lift fans. It relies on maintaining a stable air cushion to provide sufficient lift and uses a skirt to contain the air cushion and allow travel over varied terrain. Advantages of hovercraft include wildlife research, transportation, fishing, military uses, and entertainment.

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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE

HOVERCRAFT
Abstract:
Air cushion supported vehicles could only be successfully developed using
suitable light materials for the hull and air blower. The design and development
of a hovercraft prototype with full hovercraft basic functions is reported
.Experience from flying boats was particularly valuable because normal aircraft
materials are not generally designed to resist corrosion when immersed in salt
water an important design parameter for marine vehicles. Further research is
recommended to improve on the efficiency of the craft.
Introduction:
An Air cushion vehicle is a vehicle that flies like a plane but can float like a
boat, can drive like a car but will traverse ditches and gullies as it is a flat
terrain. These vehicles are supported in various ways. Some of them have a
specially designed wing that will lift them just off the surface over which they
travel when they have reached a sufficient horizontal speed (the ground effect).
Hovercrafts are usually supported by fans that force air out from the Air
propellers, water propellers, or water jets usually provide forward propulsion.
Aircontinuously forced under the vehicle by a fan, generating the cushion that
greatly reduces friction between the moving vehicle and surface. The air is
delivered through ducts and injected at the periphery of the vehicle in a forward
and inward direction. This type of vehicle can equally ride over ice, water,
marsh, or relatively level land. It iscapable of travelling over land, water, mud
or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary.
Hovercraft- A hovercraft is a self-propelled vehicle, dynamically supported by
a self-generated cushion of slow moving, high pressure air which is ejected
against the surface below and contained within a flexible skirt such that is
totally amphibious and has some ability to travel over less than perfect surfaces.
Propulsion is not derived from contact with the water or the ground.
Component used:
 LI PO battery
 Electronic speed controller
 Radio controller
 BLDC out runner motor
 Skirt cloth
 Propeller blades
Working principle:
The hovercraft floats above the ground surface on a cushion of air supplied by
the lift fan. The air cushion makes the hovercraft essentially frictionless. The
hovercraft relies on a stable cushion of air to maintain sufficient lift. The air
ejected from the propeller is separated by a horizontal divider into pressurized
air utilized for the air cushion and momentum used for thrust. The weight
distribution on top of the deck is arranged so that the air is distributed the air
from the rear of the deck throughout the cushion volume in an approximately
even fashion to provide the necessary support. The skirt extending below the
deck provides containment, improves balance, and allows the craft to traverse
more varied terrain. We maintain the rigidity of the skirt by filling the air-tight
skirt with the same pressurized air diverted towards lift. Hovercrafts work on
the two main principles of lift and propulsion. Lift is an important factor
because it is that which allows the craft to ride on a cushion of air. This process
begins by directing.The air cushion makes the hovercraft essentially frictionless
movement.
Advantages:
1. Wildlife conservation and research
2. Transportation or "island-hopping"
3. Fishing anywhere ... including ice fishing
4. Travelling from land to water where there is no boat dock
5. Military services: Assault vehicles and transporting troops
6. Dive recovery teams
7. Retrieving birds from tailings ponds at mining sites
8. Water management
9. Border Patrol and Homeland Security
10.Port authorities/drug enforcement
11.TV and film companies (James Bond movies often use hovercraft)
12.Entertainment at Disney World water shows

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