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2. Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle - Wikipedia

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   The Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV), also known as the Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) in Army and Coast Guard service, was a United States Navy and Army hovercraft used as a patrol boat in marshy and riverine areas during the Vietnam War between 1966 and 1970. Six hovercraft were built, three for the Army and three for the Navy.

3. Personal hovercraft - Wikipedia

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   A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle, is a vehicle or craft that can be supported by a cushion of air ejected downwards against a surface close below it, and can in principle travel over any relatively smooth surface, such as gently sloping land, water, or marshland, while having no substantial contact with it. [1]

4. Hovercraft - Wikipedia

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   A hovercraft (pl.: hovercraft [1]), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, [2] is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull , or air cushion, that is slightly above atmospheric pressure .

5. Category:Air-cushion vehicles - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Air-cushion vehicles" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Hovercraft; S.

6. My Honest Review of 7th Avenue's Cloud Sofa Dupe After ... - AOL

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   I opted to just clean the pillow and cushion covers, and they all comfortably fit in my washing machine. 7th Avenue recommends air drying or tumble drying the covers without heat, so be prepared ...

7. Ship-to-Shore Connector - Wikipedia

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   The Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), also known as the LCAC 100 class, [6] is a system proposed by the United States Navy as a replacement for the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC). [7] It will offer an increased capacity to cope with the growing weight of equipment used by the United States Army and Marine Corps. [5]

8. Cushioncraft - Wikipedia

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   In 1960 Britten-Norman Ltd began trials of their new "Cushioncraft"—their name for an air-cushion vehicle built for Elders and Fyffes. [3] It was used to study the potential of this type of vehicle for the carriage of bananas from plantations in the Southern Cameroons. Together with its associated company, Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd, Britten ...

9. Surface effect ship - Wikipedia

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   The 100A and 100B were both capable of operating almost completely out of the water on an air cushion with only 18 in (46 cm) of sidewall, the propellers or the waterjet inlets entering the water. The 100-ton SES 100B was built for the US Navy as a 1/10 scale model to test the feasibility of using hovercraft and other Surface Effect Ships in ...