Aurora Flight Sciences has released a new video of its revolutionary wing-in-ground-effect Liberty Lifter concept aircraft that it's developing for DARPA. The aircraft uses ground effect to lift heavy ...
Russia’s TsAGI central aerohydrodynamic institute has conducted low-speed wind tunnel testing of an integrated wing/body concept for a heavy transport aircraft. The aircraft is designed to carry 500 ...
The Federal Aviation Administration’s new funding law requires the agency to collaborate with the US Coast Guard (USCG) to define regulatory oversight of wing-in-ground-effect (WIGs) vehicles, a move ...
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The Soviet Plan to Build a Flying Aircraft Carrier
: In the 1960s, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned a colossal Ekranoplan that could travel over the ocean at 600 km/h while carrying fighter jets. This ground-effect aircraft would operate just ...
A new ekranoplan, or ground-effect vehicle, design emerging from China was first noted earlier this week. Now a new image offers our first look at the whole airframe. An ekranoplan, derived from the ...
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