air cushion vehicle
air-cushioned vehicle

The air cushion vehicle was not an ambulance but a gun-truck.

Unlike an air cushion vehicle, this does not produce a dust cloud.

Oh, they were in one of the reconstructed air cushion vehicles that had collected the stores from the drop field.

The Regiment's infantry uses very small air cushion vehicles to improve their mobility.

Article on tracked air cushion vehicle research in the U.S.

He also formed a corporation seeking to develop a practical bus-sized air cushion vehicle.

He wasn't a great driver, but he'd handled air cushion vehicles before and could maneuver the calliope well enough for pres- ent needs.

The tanks are supported by smaller "combat cars", armored air cushion vehicles that mount three 2 cm tribarrels.

An air cushion vehicle squatted behind a stone planter, covering the entrance with an automatic impeller in a small turret.

Additionally, the lighter vehicles allow for a wider variety of suspension methods, from conventional steel wheels, to rubber tires, air cushion vehicles and maglevs.

However, at present the most appropriate vehicles for implementation of the method are amphibious hovercraft, also known as air cushion vehicles (ACV).

Bell Aerosystems, led by the visionary E. K. Liberatore, built the Skimmer One air cushion vehicle.

Climbing up to the roofs of the palace would only delay my danger, while the greater danger rushed forward on the air cushion vehicles of the Lightning Division.

During World War II, an engineer in the United States of America, Charles Fletcher, invented a walled air cushion vehicle.

The coxswain gunned the craft's engines and the skirts inflated, lifting the air cushion vehicle clear of the beach in a storm of wind-blown sand and spray.

Slade had never claimed to be much of a driver himself, but at least the tanker did not regard air cushion vehicles with an angry hostility the way the young Houseman did.

In 1968, while Mr. Liberatore was with the Aeromar Corporation, he designed a transocean air cushion vehicle ferry capable of operating in excess of 200 miles per hour.

With his longtime friend and business partner John Britten, he also designed, built and sailed racing yachts, as well as a series of air cushion vehicles and crop spraying equipment.

NRA developed and tested over 30 air cushion vehicles, with the Air Gem Air cushion vehicle produced as their first product.

A real benefit of air cushion vehicles in moving heavy loads over difficult terrain, such as swamps, was overlooked by the excitement of the British Government funding to develop high-speed hovercraft.

It was so smooth that he thought for a moment that Kelburney was in an aircar or at least an air cushion vehicle, but the forehull bobbled repeatedly into the bottom of the frame.

She could hear what sounded like combustion engines, and something about the way the deck beneath her vibrated and the whole cabin moved now and again suggested that she was on an Air Cushion Vehicle.

She participated in exercises "Hilltop VII" and "Mudpuppy I" in the Philippines before loading three experimental Navy Patrol Air Cushion vehicles on 15 December for transportation to San Diego.

He keyed the door a second time and swung into the car, both men moving with the trained grace of soldiers who knew how to get on and off air cushion vehicles smoothly-because getting hung up was a good way to catch a round.

Grumman also developed an air-cushion transportation prototype (also known as tracked air cushion vehicle or TACV), tested within the same facility in Pueblo, which also stopped when UMTA funding ceased in the 1970s.