V SOLOVIEV'S FOILCRAFT Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC B63B1/24 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to ship building, namely to foilcraft. Proposed foilcraft has displacement-type vehicle hull with bow, stern and side walls and bottom, foils secured thereto and deck, as well as control hardware, crew, passengers and cargo compartments. Aircraft that reached ceiling with no turbojet or jet engines nor wings with fuel tanks is fitted atop said displacement-type vehicle hull. Note here that said displacement-type vehicle hull has lengthwise slides on bottom and inclined sidewall that smoothly fairs with the bottom, tight vertical through shafts between deck and bottom for landing gear and airframe to move therein and locked in operating conditions. Desk is made with recesses and fasteners for said aircraft and its engines to be placed and secured therein. Aircraft engines dismantled therefrom are mounted on hull deck above water line at acute angle to horizon and connected with air intakes protected by screens and with smoothly bent gas ducts passed through openings in the deck and stern wall and communicated with transformable controlled nozzles. Dismantled aircraft wings with fuel tanks are arranged inside said displacement-type vehicle hull. Foils are pivoted at bow and stern walls and allow their locking in initial and operating positions. Additional landing gear is pivoted to stern wall to be locked therein in initial and operating positions. Additional guards are arranged on hull deck, while additional passenger, cargo and fuel tank compartments.

EFFECT: expanded application of aircraft that reached ceiling in ship design and provision of amphibious properties for foilcraft.

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