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 ...

Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner operating as Flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London's Gatwick Airport crashed shortly after ...

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

The Boeing Pelican ULTRA was envisioned as a super-heavy transport with cargo capacity far beyond anything ever flown.

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 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 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 ...

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 ...