Held at: the Land Engineering Test Establishment (LETE), Canadian Armed Forces, Ottawa
November 29th 1990
The Workshop was held in three parts, first a series of technical papers, then a groups of project update papers, and finally a session of interviews and discussion of the necessary questionnaire to define technical requirements for an ACV application that a new user could helpfully fill in.
The Documentation is in a single pdf file and so the page reference for the papers is listed by the titles. These page numbers are those in the pdf document, rather than the printed document page number.
Click on the header image to access the pdf document
Part 1 – Papers
1.1 Application of ACVs in the Canadian Coastguard (p6 in pdf document)
Capt. G A More, CCG, Ottawa
Summary only
1.2 Future Aspects of Advanced Marine Vehicles (p7)
J F Sladky, Kinetics, Mercer Island, Washington State, USA
Summary only
1.3 Insurance for Air Cushion Vehicles (p8)
S Grana, Osborn & Lange Inc, Montreal, Quebec
Summary only
1.4 Small Hovercraft: the bad and the good (pp9-18)
R Fishlock ULH Hovercraft Canada Inc, Carleton Place, Ontario
Paper text and figures.
1.5 Development at Neoteric Hovercraft Inc (pp19-29)
C Fitzgerald, Neoteric Hovercraft, Terre Haute, Indiana
Paper text and figures
Part 2 – Current Projects Update – Technical Papers
2.1 Shearwater II Hovercraft (p31)
2.2 Surface Impulse Propulsion (pp32-34)
2.3 Ile d’Anticosti Island – Rio Orinoco (p35)
2.4 Current projects at UTIAS Toronto
2.5 Canadian Association of Owners and Pilots of Hovercraft (p41)
Part 3 – Workshop
Interviews were carried out with Capt. G A More, CCG; G Desgagnes, Transports Quebec; J Freeth, OSD Marine; D Vezina, Voie Maritime du St Laurent. (pp44-48)
Following the interviews C Payne presented a methodology for evaluation of vehicle requirements against the mission definition, when specifying new equipment for tasks requiring ACV capabilities.
Attendance List
