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Jan. 01, 1968 - The Agricultural Hovercraft: Filling one of the two 10-gallon capacity containers fitted to a prototype hovercraft crop sprayer, which has been developed by a British company to spray land up to ten times faster than conventional tractor-mounted of tractor drawn equipment. Adequate ground coverage can be maintained by the machine at a surprising 20 miles per hour. A limitation of speed imposed only by the spraying equipment. When one considers that this particular hovercraft is capable of between 70 and 80 miles per hour, some indication of its potential can be imagined. It is powered by four petrol/oil 250 cc opposed twin motor cycle engines, driving two downdraught lift fans and two propeller blades for forward thrust. When hot being used for crop spraying, the hovercraft would be suitable as a load-carrying general run about for a large farming unite. One use might be for perimeter fence inspection of Australian farms. The company are exploring the possibility of producing hover trailers and loading platforms capable of carrying very heavy loads which would be pulled by tractor, truck, small car o another hovercraft

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