Feature: Hop into a Hovercraft
Posted on July 3rd, 2011 by Mary Lord
An Austrian engineering firm debuted a new type of hovercraft at the Paris Air Show, claiming it can take off and land vertically without using any rotor blades or fixed wings. Popular Science’s report says the Austrian Innovative Aeronautical Technology’s (IAT21) D-Dalus uses four contra-rotating turbines for propulsion, allowing “thrust to be fired in any direction, around any axis.”
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Tags: Aerospace, hovercraft, Ideas & Inventions, Paris Air Show, Transportation
