Liberty Lifter, a program to develop a ground effect aircraft that could carry heavy loads while skimming over waves and up ...

This is the wing-in-ground effect (WiGE), and if you manage to max it out by flying at an altitude just 5% of your wingspan, it creates so much extra lift that you can fly an incredible 2.3 times ...

Wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft such as the Soviet-era Ekranoplan have shown promise in the past, but they're yet to take off, so to speak, as a mainstream form of transport. These low-flying ...

(Aurora Flight Sciences) Both aircraft are supposed to rely on the “ground effect” for their low altitude flight. As an aircraft gets lower to the ground, it forces the air into a vortex ...

The aircraft needs to be able to takeoff and ... operation up to Sea State 5 (up to 13 ft wave height), fly out of ground effect at altitudes of up to 10,000 feet and transport huge payloads ...

One aircraft that never made it past prototyping is the Bartini and Beriev VVA-14, a vehicle meant to harness the ground effect and so much more. During the sixties, Robert Bartini, an Italian ...

The ground-effect (GE) refers to the almost mystical property where the interaction of the airflow around an aircraft’s wing and the ground massively increases efficiency due to the reduction of ...

This ground-effect aircraft would operate just meters above the water, launching planes at combat speed without the need for runways or catapults. The design promised stealth, speed, and ...

Seeing an untapped market for wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) aircraft, especially for missions in the littoral waters around Southeast Asia and beyond, the company partnered in 2023 with local player ...