ADAPTIVE FLOAT Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B64C25/56 

FIELD: aeronautical engineering; alighting gears of flying vehicles- seaplanes, amphibian aeroplanes, helicopters and ships.

SUBSTANCE: proposed adaptive float has displacement hull and load-bearing member to which displacement hull is secured. Displacement hull has at least two elastic pneumatic chambers, loaders and hydrodynamic bottom assembled from plates. These plates are secured on load-bearing member for control of dead-rise angles relative to axis of symmetry of float by means of loaders.

EFFECT: possibility of changing float configuration depending on conditions of interaction with medium.

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