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Spectrum Hovercraft 

Hovercraft image

Image courtesy of Keith McNeill's Space Model Photography website, with permission.


Data from Spectrum files withheld.  Because of security reasons, the Spectrum organisation will not release many of the specific details of the Spectrum Hovercraft.


Inside of Hovercraft

Inside of Hovercraft, as seen in 'Traitor'.

The Spectrum Hovercraft is a highly versatile vehicle, which can be used on difficult terrain where other vehicles cannot. In a day-to-day basis, the hovercraft is used for patrol at the Spectrum training facilities such as Camp Sahara (in Northern Africa) and Koala Base (in Australia).


The Hovercraft is a four seater.


The Hovercraft is powered by fixed, pre-spin rotors and revolving rotor blades, which act as air-impellors to drive incoming air downwards to the air-cushion outlets to lift the hovercraft off the ground/water. The vehicle is mostly made of Fleetonium alloy, which makes it very strong and light. and of conventional sea vehicle materials. It  is blue and white in colouration.


The Hovercraft uses Thermionic Converters, which generate electrical energy by a heat exchanger system used to heat the air-fuel mixture, as a power source motors. It also runs on a special form of fuel from the Spectrum refinery at Bensheba as an alternative source of power.


It is unknown where the Hovercraft is constructed, but it could be presumed that it could be at Koala Base, Spectrum cadet centre and hovercraft base in Australia. Maintenance is performed at the various training facilities.


Cutaways


Hovercraft cutaways
  1. Control cabin Forward seats and consoles for pilot and co-pilot, those at rear for observers.

  2. Rear compartment with exit doors, stores and eating and resting facilities for use on long patrols.

  3. Instrument nacelle recording wind-speed, airspeed, etc.

  4. Fixed rotor pre-spins air.

  5. Revolving rotor drives air downwards to air cushion outlets.

  6. Bevels-box and drive serving rotor.

  7. Tail-plane and rudder.

  8. Gearbox.

  9. Drive motor.

  10. Transformer and standby battery.

  1. Thermionic converter (generates electric current by heat action).

  2. Primary heat exchanger.

  3. Neutron generator.

  4. Compressor turbine.

  5. Secondary heat exchanger heats air fuel mixture.

  6. Reheat booster.

  7. Fuel tank.

  8. Fuel pump.

  9. Air pump pressurises lower fuel tank as fuel is withdrawn.

  10. Cable ducts in rotor funnel walls.

  11. Air-stream to cushion outlets.

  12. Inflated curtain prevents loss of air cushion.



(Sources: TV Century 21 material (Annuals, books and magazines), Engale Marketing's Century 21 magazine, Issue 15, Winter 1995, Fleetway Magazines, Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons book by Chris Drake & Graham Bassett, Complete Book of Captain Scarlet by Chris Bentley… all related to TV Century 21 material - Photo-montages provided by Keith McNeill's 's Space Model Photography.)




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