The American PAR-WIG was a Cold War ground effect aircraft concept designed to skim just above the sea while carrying ...

Wing-in-ground effect aircraft: Extreme efficiency and low cost As we've seen with the fossil-fueled Airfish-8 and the battery-electric hydrofoiling Regent Viceroy Seaglider – not to mention Howard ...

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 ...

New images circulating on Chinese social media appearing to show a previously unseen wing-in-ground-effect aircraft are raising the eyebrows of military analysts. They speculate that Beijing may be ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, CIA analysts spotted a mystery vehicle being developed on the Caspian coastline of Soviet Russia. The craft was dubbed the “Caspian Sea Monster” and was ...

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 ...

Making sure the world is at peace and more or less free is not an easy task. For the countries that took this mission upon themselves, that means not only constantly being on the lookout for dangers ...

Ground effect vehicles exploit the increase in lift and reduction in drag experienced when flying close to a surface. By trapping a cushion of high-pressure air beneath their wings or lifting surfaces ...