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HTI HOVERCRAFT |
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· High Speed Amphibious Search and Rescue Craft
· Law Enforcement & Border Protection Missions
· Water and Ice Taxi Services
· Ambulance for Remote Communities
· Lower Capital & Operating Cost than a Helicopter
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HTI Hovercraft can be used on fast flowing water such as flooded rivers as current has little effect on craft when hovering. This means the pilot is able to maintain speed and direction or even remain stationary, maintaining position to carry out rescues without fighting the current.
Providing a reasonably low bank can be accessed, hovercraft can be launched onto rivers and floodwater without use of a slipway. There is no need to back a trailer down into the water. The hovercraft can be flown (or reversed) in.
Hovercraft can be operated over underwater obstructions such as fences, walls and debris without hindrance and there is no propeller to foul. Very simply, if you can’t see an obstruction you can’t hit it.
No propeller in the water means less risk to casualties in the water or crew when working close to the craft. Extreme maneuverability and controlled reverse capability as well as the ability to stop quickly means this type of hovercraft can be operated in confined spaces such as narrow streets and flooded trailer sites.
Hovercraft can be used on mixed surfaces where boats cannot be effective such as areas which require negotiating water and dry areas to get to casualties or working sites and can cross water to work on areas of dry or un-flooded land. As well as working over deep water, the hovercraft can work on tidal or river areas, marshlands, lakes, shoals, mud flats, tundra, and frozen waters and thin or broken.
With accurate directional control the hovercraft can negotiate slopes, reverse and even turn in it’s own length.
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