Turn Wind into Profit PrevNext Marine en News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Stagecoach to launch hover trial for Forth commuters COMMUTERS will have their first chance to sample hover travel across the Forth next month when a two-week trial gets under way. Stagecoach will test the potential for a new link between Kirkcaldy in Fife and Portobello, Edinburgh, using a hovercraft capable of connecting them in 20 minutes. Passengers will pay 4.50 return for the hourly, daytime service, which is seen as potentially relieving some congestion on the Forth Road Bridge. The 300,000 trial, which runs from 16 July to 28 July, coincides with a week-long closure of the Forth Bridge for railway engineering work. Brian Souter, the Stagecoach chief executive, hit upon the hovercraft plan after being frustrated by the "painfully slow" progress of his original Forth ferry plans, which The Scotsman revealed three years ago. Hovercraft do not need the expensive dock construction required by ferries, but experts said they could cost more to run and prompt complaints over noise.
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Naval Architect Naval architecture also known as Naval engineering is an engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures.[1][2] Naval architecture involves basic and applied research, design, development, design evaluation and calculations during all stages of the life of a marine vehicle. Preliminary design of the vessel, its detailed design, construction, trials, operation and maintenance, launching and dry-docking are the main activities involved. Ship design calculations are also required for ships being modified (by means of conversion, rebuilding, modernization, or repair). Naval architecture also involves formulation of safety regulations and damage control rules and the approval and certification of ship designs to meet statutory and non-statutory requirements. Main subjects[edit] Hydrostatics[edit] Body plan of a ship showing the hull form Hydrodynamics[edit] Deck of an oil tanker, looking aft. Structures[edit] [edit]
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