She participated in exercises " Hilltop VII " and " Mudpuppy I " in the Philippines before loading three experimental Navy Patrol Air Cushion vehicles on 15 December for transportation to San Diego.
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With his longtime friend and business partner John Britten, he also designed, built and sailed racing yachts, as well as a series of air cushion vehicles and crop spraying equipment.
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One of the experimental units serving with the division was the 39th Cavalry Platoon ( Air Cushion Vehicle ) which used three of the specially designed Plain of Reeds along the south Vietnamese / Cambodian border.
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U . S . Department of Transport's Urban Mass Transit Administration funded several hovertrain projects, which were known as Tracked Air Cushion Vehicles or TACVs.
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The U . S . Army created its own version of the PACV in 1967 with some of the Navy's modifications from the experimental phase of 1966, calling it the ACV, for air cushion vehicle.
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The Rohr prototype, officially called the Urban Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle ( UTACV ) and colloquially the Rohr Aerotrain, was propelled by linear motor and was designed to carry 60 passengers at 150 mph ( 240 km / h ).
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While initial landings from an offshore force would be from helicopters or tiltrotor aircraft, with air cushion vehicles bringing ashore larger equipment, traditional landing craft, portable causeways, or other equipment will eventually be needed to bring heavy equipment across a beach.
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"' CCGS " Sipu Muin " "'is a Canadian Coast Guard is a Type 400 AP1-88 ACV AP1-88 Air Cushion Vehicle ( ACV ) ] or hovercraft based at CCG Hovercraft Base Trois-Rivi�res in Trois-Rivi�res Ouest, Quebec.
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Additionally, the lighter vehicles allow for a wider variety of suspension methods, from conventional steel wheels, to rubber tires, air cushion vehicles and maglevs . Since the system has to be automated in order to reduce the headways enough to be worthwhile, by automating the steering as well the operational costs can also be reduced compared to crewed vehicles.
