First air cushion boat 1915

[edwest4]

Apparently, a prototype was built but it did not go into production.



http://www.christian-schmidt-fachbuchhandlung.de/product_info.php?products_id=6948&osCsid=ed9bd6e5b1cad46f122db46ec8014070




Ed

 

[joncarrfarrelly]

Text of article from Warship No. 17 reproduced here:
http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg6339/data/ah/minor-crafts/1915_ah-gleitboot/tec_versuchsgleitboot-1.htm

Drawing:

http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg6339/data/ah/minor-crafts/1915_ah-gleitboot/1916_cex_versuchsgleitboot.htm

 

[Nik]

Whoo !!

That could have been a nasty surprise in the Balkan Littoral...