WING-IN-GROUND EFFECT CRAFT Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; vehicles on dynamic air cushion; designing and manufacturing wing-in-ground effect crafts for passengers and cargo carriage. SUBSTANCE: craft has cabin, wing and stabilizers one of which is made in form of rotating flywheel installed on vertical axle inside wing. Craft is furnished also with additional stabilizing devices in form of hinged hydrofins mounted on wing trailing edge. Weights are mounted on ends of hydrofins. It is expedient to make axle of rotating flywheel of such craft for turning in vertical plane passing through axis of symmetry of wing-in-ground effect craft. Flywheel axle can be furnished with stop interacting with hydrofins through air-operated lever-and cable drive. EFFECT: improved stabilization of wing-in-ground effect craft when landing at slow speed and at high sea. 2 cl, 8 dwg