The video shows how Liberty Lifter can combine heavy-lift transport at the scale of a ship with the speed of an aircraft for fast logistics missions in a sea environment. Aurora Flight Sciences, which ...

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 ...

The US military is exploring the potential of an experimental amphibian wing-in-ground-effect vehicle to improve logistics in maritime environments. The US Marine Corps (USMC) is contracting with ...

As we reported in our article about the new Chinese design, an ekranoplan uses the aerodynamic concept of ground effect to travel at high speeds just above the surface of water (or, less commonly, ...

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 ...

Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned the A-2500 Ekranoplan, a colossal 2,500-ton ground-effect aircraft that would serve as a flying aircraft carrier. Measuring 180 meters long with ten jet ...

All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an ...

Singapore’s ST Engineering is looking to expand beyond aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul into something it can call its own—and setting its sights on aircraft technology made famous by the ...

Aircraft and boats will be two tough sectors to wean off fossil fuels, since both require way more energy than is practical with current battery technologies. Ground effect vehicles like the Regent ...

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 ...