| 摘要 |
<p>A flexible skirt 10 for a hovercraft includes a skirt wall and a mesh diaphragm 30 extending across the interior of the skirt to be placed under tension when the skirt is inflated. The shape of the mesh and the orientation of the diaphragm within the skirt are configured such that in use when a lower edge of the inflated skirt wall encounters an obstacle causing a local reduction in vertical tension in the mesh diaphragm, the portion of the mesh above the obstacle lifts and a resultant change in shape of the mesh causes immediately adjacent portions of the mesh to lower, lowering the skirt wall to either side of the obstacle. The mesh may comprise a plurality of hexagonal or octagonal shapes which may be supplemented with diamond shapes. The mesh may extend across the bag part of the skirt. A further mesh may extend from the tails 24 of finger portions 22 to the underside of the sidebody 6.</p> |
