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Chapters: Pneumatic Tube, Gyro Monorail, Tracked Hovercraft, Atmospheric Railway, Guided Bus, Aérotrain, Monometro, Automated Guideway Transit, Bombardier Guided Light Transit, Vactrain, Lartigue Monorail, Schienenzeppelin, Translohr, Beach Pneumatic Transit, Gravity Train, Phileas, George Medhurst, Aerobus, Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway, Bennie Railplane, Skybus Metro, Dual-Mode Transit, Ground Effect Train, Micheline, Urba Mass Transport System, Kearney High-Speed Railway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, gyro-stabilized monorail, or gyrocar are terms for a single rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel, to overcome the inherent instability of balancing on top of a single rail. The monorail is associated with the names Louis Brennan, August Scherl and Pyotr Shilovsky, who each built full-scale working prototypes during the early part of the twentieth century. A version was developed by Ernest F. Swinney, Harry Ferreira and Louis E. Swinney in the USA in 1962. The gyro monorail has never developed beyond the prototype stage. The principal advantage of the monorail cited by Shilovsky is the suppression of the Hunting oscillation, which was a speed limitation encountered by conventional railways at the time. Also, sharper turns are possible compared to the 7 km typical of modern high-speed trains such as the TGV, because the vehicle will bank automatically on bends, like an aircraft, so that no lateral centrifugal acceleration is experienced on board. A major drawback is that many cars - including passenger and freight cars, not just the locomotive - would require a constantly powered gyroscope to stay upright. Unlike other means of maintaining balance, such as lateral shi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4436457 ... Read more

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Chapters: Sr.n4, Tracked Hovercraft, Hoverspeed, Hoverboard, Landing Craft Air Cushion, Zubr Class Lcac, Surface Effect Ship, Christopher Cockerell, Bora Class Guided Missile Hovercraft, Hoverlloyd, Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle, Sr.n6, N500 Naviplane, Melville W. Beardsley, Tuuli Class Hovercraft, Aist Class Lcac, Griffon 2000td Hovercraft, Plenum Chamber, Griffon Hovercraft, Airboard, Sr.n5, Abs Hovercraft, Personal Hovercraft, Sr.n1, Air-Cushioned Landing Craft, Seaspeed, British Hovercraft Corporation Bh.7, Tsaplya Class Lcac, British Hovercraft Corporation Ap1-88, Lebed Class Lcac, Hovercraft Museum, Jingsah Ii Class Lcac, Air Caster, Flymo, Sah 2200 Hovercraft, Czilim Class Acv, Sr.n2, Gus Class Lcac, Hovercar, Southsea Hoverport, Sr.n3, Air Car, Pegasus, Barguzin Class Hovercraft. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 170. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A hovercraft (air-cushion vehicle, ACV) is a craft capable of travelling over surfaces while supported by a cushion of slow moving, high-pressure air which is ejected against the surface below and contained within a "skirt." Although supported by air, hovercraft are not considered an aircraft. Hovercraft are used throughout the world as specialized transports. They can also be used after a natural disaster for emergency purposes. Because they are supported by a cushion of air, hovercraft are unique among all other forms of ground transportation in their ability to travel equally well over land, ice, and water. Small hovercraft are used for sport, or passenger service, while giant hovercraft have civilian and military applications, and are used to transport cars, tanks, and large equipment in hostile environments and terrain. The first mention in the historical record of the principles behind hovering and hoverboats was by Swedish s...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=152690 ... Read more

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Jane's authoritative yearbooks. Hovercraft and hydrofoils. Lists virtually every hovercraft produced in the world in the year 1982 from small one person models to large commercial and military models built to carry very large payloads. Specifications on each one with a large glossary of terms specific to these craft. ... Read more

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mag: ARGOSY... 6/70... The Tribe That Tried to Buy LBJ... Is Your Dog Psychic.... Across Africa in a Hovercraft,,, ... Read more

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Aircraft may be affected by a number of ground effects, aerodynamic effects due to a flying body's proximity to the ground. One of the most important of these effects is the Wing In Ground effect, which refers to the reduction in drag experienced by an aircraft as it approaches a height approximately equal to the aircraft's wingspan above ground or other level surface, such as the sea. The effect increases as the wing descends closer to the ground, with the most significant effects occurring at an altitude of one half the wingspan. It can present a hazard for inexperienced pilots who are not accustomed to correcting for it on their approach to landing, but it has also been used to effectively enhance the performance of certain kinds of aircraft whose planform has been adapted to take advantage of it, such as the Russian ekranoplans. The first to give scientific description of the ground effect and to provide theoretical methods of calculation of air cushion vehicles was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in his 1927 paper "Air Resistance and the Express Train". ... Read more

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Such a long name for a book
"Ground Effect in Aircraft: Drag (physics), Aircraft, Wingspan, Aviator, Planform, Ground effect vehicle, Hovercraft, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Coandu0103 ... Vortex ring, List of ground effect vehicles" has such a long name because it is includes the name of each Wikipedia article that the book consists of. That's right: it's a collection of free material. Without any clealr visible warning that it's a collection of free material either. Misleading to say the least. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Northern Ontario Business, published by Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc. on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 887 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Riding on air: Kenora's Vanair hovercraft knows their niche.(Vanair Hovercraft )(Company overview)
Author: Ian Ross
Publication: Northern Ontario Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 30Issue: 9Page: 1(2)

Article Type: Company overview

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