air-cushion vehicle
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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air-cushion vehicle ACV a vehicle, usually driven by a propeller, that can travel over land or water with its weight, including its payload, wholly or mostly supported on a continuously generated, slowly moving cushion of low-pressure air.
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Textron Marine Systems. (fixed-price contract to construct Landing Craft, Air Cushion vehicles, technical manual and provide engineering support for the Navy) (Defense Contracts)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 1/14/1993; 502 words
; ...New Orleans, La., $117.3 million firm fixed-price contract for construction of seven Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles, including technical manuals, crew familiarization, spares and related engineering support. Work will be...
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New Jersey Inventor Develops Air Cushion Vehicle
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/14/2007; 461 words
; ...Somerset, N.J., has developed an air cushion vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent...Office: "The present invention is an air cushion vehicle and a control mechanism...steering and turning the vehicle. The air cushion vehicle includes a frame...
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Florida Inventor Develops Air Cushion Vehicle
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/27/2007; 542 words
; ...Pensacola, Fla., has developed an air cushion vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine air cushion vehicle provides a hull having...inflatable open cones, and wherein the air cushion is not subdivided by any...
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Russian Inventors Develop Light Air-Cushion Vehicle
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/25/2008; 474 words
; ...Moscow, Russia, have developed an air-cushion vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light air-cushion vehicle has a thrust reverser...arranged at an output end of an air nozzle, at least one direction...
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Dowty Aerospace Corp. (contract for repair of propeller assemblies for Landing Craft Air Cushion Vehicle Program) (Defense Contracts)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 9/20/1994; 684 words
; ...delivery order under a basis ordering agreement for repair services of 25 propellor assemblies for the Landing Craft A ir Cushion Vehicle Program. Work will be performed in Sterling, Va., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 1995. Contract funds...
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Utva launches WIG Ekranoplan. (wing-in-ground-effect air-cushion vehicle)
Magazine article from: Flight International; 10/17/1990; ; 591 words
; ...continuous maximum power whereby it is not subject to the ground effect". Utva says the Ekranoplan could serve as a commuter vehicle to connect islands as it flies at speeds of 108kt to 162kt (200 to 300km/h. The projected WIG is 31m long, 28m wide...
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Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Hovercraft Toy Vehicle Air Cushions Set
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/13/2008; 378 words
; ...March 13 -- Michael G. Hetman of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for air cushions for hovercraft toy vehicles, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No...
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RAIN SLICKS ROADS, RAISES FLOOD THREAT ; Piled snow helps to cushion vehicles sliding off icy byways.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 12/18/2003; ; 624 words
; ...FLOOD THREAT ; Piled snow helps to cushion vehicles sliding off icy byways. Byline...temperatures in the upper 30s and dryer air forecast for southern Maine, "the...said meteorologist Art Lester. The air temperature was above 32 degrees...
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Navy Expecting To Begin Future LCAC AoA Any Day Now.(Landing Craft Air Cushion)(Joint Requirements Oversight Council)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 9/29/2006; 700+ words
; ...to approve the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) initial capabilities...service life of the heavy lift air cushion vehicles, Bob Teer, the LCAC and Joint...However, the ICD identified an Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV)--like the LCAC...
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WIPO: Inventor in Spain Develops Air-Cushion-Based Propulsion, Levitation System
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/16/2008; 453 words
; ...Spain, has developed a air-cushion-based propulsion and...invention relates to an "air-cushion-based propulsion...intended for transport vehicles, consisting of cars with...which jets of pressurised air are injected using injectors...
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air-cushion vehicle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
air-cushion vehicle (ACV...Hovercraft. These vehicles are supported...check the air-cushion effects and...with such vehicles, and in...patent for a vehicle that was...a British vehicle became the...maximum size of air-cushion vehicles is now ...
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air cushion
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
air cush·ion • n. 1. an inflatable cushion. 2. the layer of air supporting a hovercraft or similar vehicle.
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cushion
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...impact: the pad forms a cushion between carpet and floor...candidate with a 14-point cushion. ∎ ...xA0; the layer of air supporting a hovercraft or similar vehicle. • v...impact on: the bag cushions equipment from inevitable...federal assistance to cushion the blow ...
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Air Bag
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...air bag is an inflatable cushion designed to protect automobile...case of a collision. The air bag is part of an inflatable...system, also known as an air cushion restraint system (ACRS) or an air bag supplemental restraint...harness and powered by the vehicle's battery. ...
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air bag
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
air bag • n. a safety device fitted inside a road vehicle, consisting of a cushion designed to inflate rapidly in the event of a collision and positioned so as to protect passengers from being flung forward.
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