Our company Hovercraft LLC tested the possibility of emergency movement of a hovercraft on one engine when fully loaded. We have received information that some of our competitors are telling customers that our hovercraft cannot move on one engine (out of two). We decided to show everyone that this, to put it mildly, is not true.
For the experiment, we put 24 people in the Neptune 23 hovercraft, which is one more than the maximum capacity of the hovercraft. Additionally, there are two more points to note:
- When calculating the payload capacity, the weight is taken at the rate of 80 kg per passenger, which can only be achieved with a mixed composition of people, i.e. men, women, children. However, we only loaded men weighing between 75 and 100 kg, giving an average weight of about 90 kg per person. Thus we overloaded the ship by approximately 240 kg or 3 people. Those. Ultimately, the overload was about 4 people.
- The test was carried out with one engine (one propeller, one supercharger) completely turned off. If it is not the engine that fails, but the propeller or supercharger, you can only turn off the broken unit. In this case, the hovercraft will have either normal thrust or normal pressurization into the air cushion, which will significantly improve performance.
What we got can be seen in the video:
https://youtu.be/ZWml6enrPUo
Conclusions:
1. The movement of the hovercraft «Neptune 23» at half power with a full load is possible.
2. The movement is carried out at reduced speeds and in the direction of the repair base, which is understandable. After all, planes also do not take off with one engine failure, but are pulled to the nearest airfield.
We are waiting for new fakes from our “partners” to be exposed.
