Canadair CL-212 air-cushion vehicle

[Apophenia]

Hi,

About the Canadair,there was two projects mentioned in the Jane's all the
world's aircraft,CL-212 & CL-246 but with no details,do you know them?.

The CL-212s were hovercraft not aircraft. Two were built.

The clip below was taken from a Videotron page on Canadair special projects (alas, now 404):

http://pages.videotron.com/frfauch/Canadair/Website/specprod.html

Air Cushion Vehicles

Between 1964 and 1967, the company designed and built two air cushion vehicles(ACV): The CL-212-1A10 had three engines, two 100-hp Mercury outboards for lift and one 50-hp McCulloch drone engine for propulsion. The CL-212-1B11's two 4740-cm³ (289-cu-in.) Ford Mustang engines provided both lift and propulsion. The program was terminated when General Dynamics decreed that all future ACV activity would be concentrated at Electric Boat, which was then working on a surface-effect vehicle ship.

For more on the Cl-212s, see:

http://www.decastris.com/hcc/builders/cl212/cl212.htm

 

[Stargazer]

Unfortunately, now the second link is also in error.
Apophenia, if you have saved these pages or any part of them, it would be nice of you to post it here. Thanks in advance!

 

[Grey Havoc]

Canadair CL212

Canadair was engaged in air cushion vehicle research from 1960 through to the end of the decade. The CL212 was an experimental vehicle developed with Canadian Government support. It was a simple, low cost ACV which utilised the semi-recirculating curtain principle.

In its final form, two Arrow Propeller Company fans, driven by two Ford Mustang automotive engines supplied air for the cushion and also for propulsion. The propulsion system consists of two ducts, located on each side of the vehicle, exhausting low velocity air. Vanes are installed in the ducts to vector the thrust for vehicle control. The vanes are connected to a simple control stick.​