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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Hovercraft

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This chapter includes a historical background with a differentiation between different types of hovercrafts, and it talks about the applications, advantages and limitations, and the main parts that compose a hovercraft. Moreover, chapter 2 includes information about propellers, in addition to the power source used in different types of hovercraft. Also, it contains an explanation to understand the main principles of hovercrafts. The conclusion of this chapter discusses the advantages and limitations of such vehicles. 2.2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND In 1716, the Swedish philosopher Emmanuel Swedenborg created the basic idea behind the hovercraft, but unfortunately, the craft was never built since it became obvious to him that generating such an …show more content…

In this segment we will discuss the difference between them: The reason that there is more than one type of hovercraft is that one hovercraft cannot fulfill all the applications. The smaller and cheaper one is used for playing on snow, mud and ice etc… Other are used for fishing, hunting and camping, while the military uses the hovercrafts for transportation of troops and heavy vehicles along water and snow. The first type is the single propeller hovercraft which include one propeller that provide the skirt with the cushion of air needed to lift the hull, and it gives the hovercraft the thrust force that lead to push it over any rough surface at the same time which means that the lift and propulsion mechanism is united. Moreover the system of the engine is fixed vertically to such vehicle. Duct provided to push some amount of air through below the mainframe into the skirt. Also this machine cannot hover stationary at one place since when the engine start the vehicle will lift to maximum and also it starts to move forward. Moreover the single propeller hovercraft is generally smaller in size from the multi propeller hovercraft which encourages many people to buy such

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