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1959
1959 - 2209.PDF
196 FLIGHT, 11 September 1959 Slt-M HOVERCRAFT This remarkable—indeed, historic—"Flight" drawing depicts a craft which cannot be said to fly; yet it does not run on wheels and cannot, in the normal sense of the word, be said to float. It is, in fact, a wholly new class of vehicle, which—as described in the inventor's article—is supported on a cushion of air at a pressure slightly greater than ambient. This cushion can hardly be illustrated other than diagrammatically; but there are very few tangible aspects of the SR-N1 which this exclusive drawing, recently made at the Saunders-Roe works, does not reveal
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