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 ...

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, ...

After two years in stealth mode, the Miami start-up says it can start deliveries in two years Sea Cheetah says its wing-in-ground-effect vessel will refuel with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet engineer Roberto Bartini proposed a massive ground effect aircraft capable of launching and recovering fighter jets ...

There's a very discreet push these days to advance wing-in-ground-effect vehicles. Both private companies and the military are looking at ways of taking advantage of this technology to find new ways ...