VOLUME 1 

 CONTENTS 



Page 



Preface iii 



Introductory Address xv 



Roger Brard, Chairman, French Organizing 

 Committee 



Opening Address xvii 



Jean Blancard, Delegue Ministeriel pour l'Armement 

 Paris, France 



Address xix 



Honorable Robert A. Frosch, Assistant Secretary of 

 the Navy for Research and Development, 

 Washington, U.S.A. 



UNCONVENTIONAL SHIPS 



WATER-JET PROPULSION FOR HIGH-SPEED SURFACE 

 SHIPS 3 



J. Duport, M. Visconti and J. Merle 

 (SOGREAH), France 



DISCUSSION 29 



William B. Morgan, Naval Ship Research and 

 Development Center, Bethesda, Maryland 



REPLY TO DISCUSSION 29 



J. Duport, SOGREAH, Grenoble, France 



THE FORCES ON AN AIR-CUSHION VEHICLE EXECUTING 



AN UNSTEADY MOTION 35 



Lawrence J. Doctors, University of New South Wales, 

 Sydney, Australia 



DISCUSSION 95 



Jorgens Strom-Tejsen, Naval Ship Research and 

 Development Center, Bethesda, Maryland 



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