Aircraft

Claim 1

A CRAFT HAVING A BOW AND STERN AND ADAPTED TO BE PROPELLED OVER SURFACES AT VARYING HEIGHTS ABOVE SAID SURFACES, SAID CRAFT COMPRISING AT LEAST THREE LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING SPACED APART HULLS, MEANS CONNECTING SAID HULLS TOGETHER, SAID HULLS AND SAID MEANS CONNECTING SAID HULLS TOGETHER DEFINING AT LEAST TWO LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING, SIDE-BY-SIDE CHANNELS, EACH OF SAID CHANNELS HAVING AN OPEN UNDERSIDE, PROPELLING MEANS FOR DRAWING AIR INTO SAID CHANNELS ADJACENT SAID BOW OF SAID CRAFT AND FOR PROPELLING AIR THROUGH SAID CHANNELS TOWARDS SAID STERN OF SAID CRAFT, A SET OF BOW PLATE MEANS POSITIONED ACROSS SAID CHANNELS ADJACENT SAID BOW OF SAID CRAFT, A SET OF STERN PLATE MEANS POSITIONED ACROSS SAID CHANNELS ADJACENT SAID STERN OF SAID CRAFT, SAID STERN PLATE MEANS BEING MOVABLE TO OPEN AND CLOSE SAID CHANNELS ADJACENT SAID STERN OF SAID CRAFT, MEANS FOR INDIVIDUALLY MOVING SAID STERN PLATE MEANS TO INDIVIDUALLY CONTROL THE PRESSURE IN EACH OF SAID CHANNELS, THE DISPLACEMENT OF SAID CRAFT BEING SUCH THAT AT REST SAID CRAFT FLOATS IN WATER WITH SAID HULLS ONLY PARTLY SUBMERGED AND SAID CHANNELS ONLY PARTLY FILLED WITH WATER, AIR OCCUPYING THE REMAINDER OF SAID CHANNELS FROM THE BOW TO THE STERN THEREOF AND MEANS FOR LONGITUDINALLY SHIFTING AT LEAST ONE OF SAID SETS OF PLATE MEANS IN SAID CHANNELS TO ALTER THE EFFECTIVE LENGTH OF SAID CHANNELS AND VARY THE POSITION OF THE CENTER OF LIFT OF SAID CRAFT RELATIVE TO THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF SAID CRAFT.