船舶是人类最古老的交通工具之一,从一开始,人们就把提高船舶的航速作为造船技术发展的主要目标。气垫船的产生和发展就是顺应这一潮流的代表。19世纪初,已有人认识到把压缩空气打到船底可以减少航行阻力,提高航速。1953年,英国人库克雷尔创立气垫理论,经过大量试验后,于1959年建成世界上第一艘气垫船, Ship is one of mankind’s oldest means of transport, from the beginning, people put to improve the speed of the ship as the main target of the development of shipbuilding technology. The emergence and development of hovercraft is the representative of this trend. At the beginning of the nineteenth Century, it has been recognized that the compressed air hit the bottom of the boat can reduce the navigation resistance, improve speed. In 1953, the British Crecre set up air cushion theory, after a large number of tests, in 1959 built the world’s first hovercraft,