Design and Fabrication of a Hovercraft (Design)

Chin, Kok Li (2013) Design and Fabrication of a Hovercraft (Design). Final Year Project (Other), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

Hovercraft is a special vehicle whereby it can travel on varying terrain likes water, swamp and road. Hovercraft has the potential to become a main vehicle instead of car in the future since the seawater was keep rising as a result of global warming. So, in this project, the author was going to design an own hovercraft which able to achieve the objectives set by author. There are some objectives need to be achieve in this project likes the hovercraft need to be able control its direction and it was able to carry a least one person. In this project, the hovercraft was designed by separating the craft into four main separating sections which are thrust system design, lift system design, skirt design and control system design. The problems faced by the author in this hovercraft design and solution to solve the problems will be discussed in this project.