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LCAC or Air Cushion Vehicle landing gear

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  • Member since
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  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
LCAC or Air Cushion Vehicle landing gear
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Monday, March 2, 2009 10:46 AM

VERY general question and I hope someone can guilde me on this.

I am scratchbuilding a Ma.K air cushion vehicle that to my knowledge has never existed in that universe so I have no guidlines.  On modern air cushion vehicles there is no external landing gear visible so it must be inside the skirt.  Does anyone know what tpe of arrangement ACV's use when they come to rest either aboard ship or land. 

I have looked all over the internet and come up with only a couple of cutaway drawings that did not help, and literally thousands of photos of them doing what they do best.

thanks!

 

David

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  • From: PDX, OR
Posted by Umi_Ryuzuki on Monday, March 2, 2009 10:59 AM

They have no "Landing Gear", the bottoms of the vehicles are essentially flat. Pretty much a barge bottom, or an airboat.

 

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  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Monday, March 2, 2009 11:33 AM

ahhhhhhhh

so they are a like a Perot here with a shallow flat bottom that will go right over obstacles. Makes much more sense than having  a true set of gear down there to catch on everything.

 

thanks!!

 

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:59 PM
 HI ! The lcac or air cushion vehicle does NOT have landing gear per se . The vehicle settles down on it,s skirt when power is cut . Some I,ve seen do have large rubber blocks that take the weight at rest . these are no more than 12 " thick .  TANKERBUILDER
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