Re: GEV Physics and GEVs for engineers

Don M wrote:

> I never could get my rather conventional mind around this one.
> Knowing the need to have both your recovery and engineer
> assets keep up with the maneuver elements.The simple solution
> I came up with in my MTO&Es for both Grav and GEV units is
> a large flatbed GEV on the same principle as the USMCs' large
> hovercraft. This can carry a conventional tracked recovery and
> engineer vehicle.The main reason for all this is I just couldn't see
> how you made a plow work on either a GEV or Grav vehicle. And
> towing a GEV would be bad....)

After a little bit of thought, I have realised that GEV's are not that
hard to
tow.  The recovery vehicle has a selection of thin plastic skirting that
it
wraps around the stricken vehicle, held on by a superglue and caulked to
be
airtight.  An auxillary lift fan supplies the air to raise the stricken
vehicle
through an umbilical, and tow cables take the strain of pulling it
along.