Peter Wright worked in F1 from the 1960's to the 1990's, in doing so he helped develop the ground effect era whilst at Lotus ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The company says the design has the benefit of combining transport at the scale of a ship with the speed of an aircraft, with a concept that can maximize efficiency by flying in ground effect and ...