Baseline Design Report of Extended Performance Hydrofoil Program PCH-1 Feasibility Demonstrator. Revision B.

Abstract

This investigation was a continuation of the general exploration into the practicability of enhancing the performance of hydrofoil craft by utilizing an external fuel-carrying buoyancy tank isolated below the craft's fully submerged foils, carried out under the DTNSRDC Ship Feasibility Investigation Block Program (SF43-411-291).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 1981
Accession Number
ADA146099

Entities

Organizations

  • Grumman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Actuators
  • Automatic Frequency Control
  • Cells
  • Compressed Air
  • Fabrication
  • Flow Rate
  • Fuel Systems
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Fuels
  • Geometry
  • Hydrofoil Craft
  • Hydrofoils
  • Lepidoptera
  • Materials
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Submarine Chaser Hydrofoils
  • Turbines

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Systems Analysis and Design