Patent ID: 7383907
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: B60V

Abstract:
1. A light air-cushion vehicle comprising a body having on the body a steering device, a body bottom, an elastic enclosure forming with the body bottom a lifting chamber defining a vertical direction, a fan, an internal combustion engine for driving the fan, and propelling and lift contours divided by a ridge respectively for guiding an air flow from the fan, and in a longitudinal direction transverse to the vertical direction an air nozzle portion of the propelling contour and to the lifting chamber, a thrust reverser bucket arranged at an output end of the air nozzle, at least one direction rudder having control surfaces at the output end of the air nozzle and at least one direction rudder having control surfaces in the lift contour, and a vehicle control system comprising a control system for the thrust reverser bucket and a control system for the direction rudders, wherein the direction rudders are kinematically connected to each other and to the steering device, and wherein the control surfaces at the output end of the air nozzle turn around an axis in the vertical direction and the control surfaces in the lift contour turn around an axis in the longitudinal direction axis.