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The major factor that makes the compound solution seem the more attractive one is the parallel with forms likehovercraft.
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However, alternative forms of transport, such as aircraft, tundra vehicles,hovercraft, and barges all have shortcomings and environmental impacts of their own.
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The average loading time of ahovercraftfor a car and its passengers is 10 minutes and the unloading time is five minutes.
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With ahovercraft, you are chopping and changing the whole time.
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We have invented and developed the jet engine and thehovercraft.
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Prototypes of a further logistichovercraftand a fast patrol craft are under development.
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He made a violent attack on thehovercraft.
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This is considerably less thanhovercraftpropelled in the conventional fashion.
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But it is at the moment very difficult to make ahovercraftwhich will carry a large number of people around cheaply and reliably.
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This type ofhovercraftwas quite rightly considered a very safe vehicle and it capsized in what might well have been freak conditions.
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The rôle ofhovercraftis envisaged to be in mine countermeasure activities.
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The trials ofhovercraftfor the mine countermeasures rôle are nearing completion.
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It has been apparent for years that there are many other applications of the air cushion principle than for marinehovercraft.
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This is whether we should not try to definehovercraftin terms of the air cushion principle expressed mathematically rather than in words.
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The feasibility studies for the new class of minehunter are planned to embracehovercraft.
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