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3 - The First Surface Effect Ship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

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High-Speed Marine Craft
One Hundred Knots at Sea
, pp. 64 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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1. “Translational Characteristics of Ground Effect Machines”, by Royce, Winston W. and Rethorst, Scott C., Institute of Aeronautical Sciences (IAS) 29th Annual Meeting, New York, New York January 23–25, 1961; Paper No. 61–79
2. “Inviscid Incompressible Flow Theory of Static Peripheral Jets in Proximity to the Ground”, by Strand, Tor, Journal of the Aerospace Sciences, January 1961, Vol 28, No. 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3. “Maritime Administration Surface Effect Ship”, by Rethorst, Scott (Vehicle Research Corporation) and Potter, W. Taylor (US Dept. of Commerce), National Aero-Nautical Meeting (Society of Automotive Engineers and American Society of Naval Engineers) Washington DC, 8–11 April 1963.
4. “150 knot GEM Cruise”, by Strand, Tor, Vehicle Research Corporation, reprint Aerospace Engineering, Volume 21, No. 4, April 1962.
5. “The 100-Knot Columbia”, article in Air Cushion Vehicles, FLIGHT International Supplement 25 October 1962
6. “Columbia in Detail”, Abstracts from National Meeting on Hydrofoils and Air Cushion Vehicles sponsored by IAS, Hovering Craft & Hydrofoil Magazine, Kalerghi-McLeavy Publications, 1961
7. “Suspension System for Surface Effect Ships”, US Patent No. 3,211,247 by Rethorst, Scott, filed 25 March 1963, issued 12 October 1965
8. “On Dynamically Similar Motions for Sea-Going GEMs”, by Mantle, Peter, Vehicle Research Corporation, Working Paper No. 24, July 1962
9. “The Pressure Distribution on Two-Dimensional Wings Near the Ground”, unpublished notes by Bagley, J.A., Ministry of Supply, London, England, 1959
10. “Recherches theorique et experimentale sur le controle de circulation par sufflage appliqué aux ailes d'avions”, by Malavard, L., Ph. Poisson-Quiton and P. Jousserandet, ONERA Note Technique 37, 1956
11. “Einfluβ der Bodennahe auf die Auftriebeverteilung einer ebenen Platte in inkompressibler ebener Stromung.” By Braunss, C. and Lincke, W., Bericht des Inst. F. Luftfahrttechnik der TH Darmstadt, Germany, 1961
12. “Wind Tunnel Tests on Jet Flaps in Ground Effect”, by Norstrud, Helge, Vehicle Research Corporation, Working Paper No. 50, November 1962
13. “Thrust and Drag Estimate for the Channel Flow GEM”, by Mantle, Peter, Vehicle Research Corporation, Working Paper No. 36, September 1962

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