The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting designs for an aircraft that will provide the U.S. military with fast, flexible, and survivable strategic lift capability that is ...

A grainy photo on China’s coast may have revealed a vehicle the world once dismissed as a dead end — a ground-effect “sea skimmer” built to fly just above the water and slip under radar. Inspired by ...

Commercial wing-in-ground-effect startups may be even newer than their advanced air mobility cousins, such as urban air taxis and large UAVs, but they claim to have a fast pass to getting into service ...

Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new project, one that should be familiar to aircraft—and ship—geeks. The Liberty Lifter seaplane transport will harness the ...

The Wing Ship Technology Corporation, a South Korean company, is trying to revive the wing in ground effect idea. South Korea’s armed forces have already agreed to buy some and the firm says it hopes ...

Unveiling a Cold War Oddity: The Ground Effect Submarine Hunter! In the shadowy corners of Soviet aerospace innovation, a bizarre and ambitious creation once soared just above the waves — the ground ...

The new X-plane will be a large flying boat similar in size and capacity to the C-17. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on a new X-plane under the Liberty Lifter Seaplane ...

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 ...

U.S. startup Flying Ship Technologies, which is building and marketing wing-in-ground-effect maritime cargo vessels, announced a so-called crowdsource-based funding effort March 28. According to a ...

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 ...