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produce just as much lift as the much larger wing on a transport aircraft, though it can do this only when close to the earth's surface. Once sufficient speed has built up, some GEVs may be capable of leaving ground effect and functioning as normal aircraft until they approach their destination. The distinguishing characteristic is that they are unable to land or take off without a significant amount of help from the ground effect cushion, and cannot climb until they have reached a much higher speed.
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high-speed craft into conflict with ships, buildings and rising land, which may not be sufficiently visible in poor conditions to avoid. GEVs may be unable to climb over or turn sharply enough to avoid collisions, while drastic, low-level maneuvers risk contact with solid or water hazards beneath. Aircraft can climb over most obstacles, but GEVs are more limited.
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before they can accelerate to flight speed. Careful design, usually with multiple redesigns of hullforms, is required to get this right, which increases engineering costs. This obstacle is more difficult for GEVs with short production runs to overcome. For the vehicle to work, its hull needs to be
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Alexeyev's first designs and was familiar with the challenges of GEV design, developed a GEV with two wings in a tandem arrangement, the Jörg-II. It was the third, manned, tandem-airfoil boat, named "Skimmerfoil", which was developed during his
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locomotion: Design an airplane which is always within the ground-interference zone. At first glance this apparatus is dangerous because the ground is uneven and the altitude called skimming permits no freedom of maneuver. But on large-sized aircraft, over water, the question may be
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two-seat GEVs in
September 2010. This GEV carries one machine gun and surveillance gear, and incorporates features to reduce its radar signature. In October 2014, satellite images showed the GEV in a shipyard in southern Iran. The GEV has two engines and no armament.
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project, with the goal of creating a low-cost seaplane that would use the ground-effect to extend its range. The program aims to carry 90 tons over 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km), operate at sea without ground-based maintenance, all using low-cost materials.
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Zealand. The order includes 15 12-seater Viceroys and 10 100-seater Monarchs.
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passing through air increases air pressure on the underside, while decreasing pressure across the top. The high and low pressures are maintained until they flow off the ends of the wings, where they form vortices which in turn are the major cause of
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both pitch and roll. The lighter construction of GEVs makes their ability to operate in higher sea states less than that of conventional ships, but greater than the ability of hovercraft or hydrofoils, which are closer to the water surface.
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of a GEV, as compared to an aircraft of similar capacity, will improve its fuel efficiency and, up to a point, its speed. GEVs are also much faster than surface vessels of similar power, because they avoid drag from the water.
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for entry into class. On 31 March 2011, AirFish 8-001 became one of the first GEVs to be flagged with the Singapore Registry of Ships, one of the largest ship registries. Wigetworks partnered with
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the main wing) and an aft, higher-located second wing nearly out of ground-effect (generally named a stabilizer).
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1838:Universal Hovercraft of America, Inc
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1893:Lendon, Brad (September 28, 2010).
1844:from the original on April 15, 2011
1607:"WigetWorks/AirFish/Wing-in-Ground"
1453:
1399:International Maritime Organization
1381:
772:(with revised hull design) and one
482:International Maritime Organization
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2576:Seminar on Aeronautics & Space
2567:IX Conference for Young Scientists
2546:Rozhdestvensky, Kirill V. (2002).
2083:from the original on July 19, 2013
2053:from the original on April 7, 2018
2022:from the original on April 7, 2018
1938:from the original on July 7, 2015.
1750:
1494:Joint Stock Company Volga Shipyard
687:. It produced the most successful
14:
3128:
2814:"СВП с АР проекта А18 («Тунгус»)"
2643:
2395:Easy Ways to Study Ground Effects
2367:Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2288:Lagrone, Sam (February 1, 2023).
1874:from the original on June 2, 2011
1454:May, James (September 27, 2008).
1304:
1275:
1014:Iran deployed three squadrons of
836:. In 1963 Lippisch developed the
544:issued Technical Memorandum 771,
475:
3068:) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g.
2802:"Ground Effect and WIG Vehicles"
2778:"Wing in the Ground Effect Ship"
2742:Airfoil Tandem W.I.G. Consulting
2662:Cole, William (September 2002).
2077:Wing Ship Technology Corporation
1949:Young, Lam Yi (April 25, 2010).
1737:10.3182/20070625-5-FR-2916.00113
1456:"Riding the Caspian Sea Monster"
1227:"Coastal Travel - 100% Electric"
1028:National University of Singapore
883:, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
379:
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2826:"Flying hovercraft project Wig"
2720:Edgar, Julian (March 5, 2002).
2596:(inactive September 26, 2024).
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162:needs additional citations for
44:may be too short to adequately
2679:Teo, Francis (July 18, 2006).
2501:Soviet and Russian Ekranoplans
2323:– via www.newshub.co.nz.
1753:"USA joins Russia on Wingship"
1695:. July 5, 2007. Archived from
1693:South African Air Force Museum
1359:
1333:
1269:10.1016/j.paerosci.2006.10.001
1249:Progress in Aerospace Sciences
1240:
1156:
1147:
1120:List of ground-effect vehicles
780:remained at a naval base near
706:. The Soviet Navy ordered 120
54:provide an accessible overview
1:
2790:"The Lun, sitting in drydock"
2541:. Southampton, UK: WIT Press.
2425:. Boston, MA: The MIT Press.
2340:Otago Daily Times Online News
1520:"Be-2500 amphibious aircraft"
1314:Katz, Justin (May 27, 2022).
290:WIG-wings configurations: (A)
1395:"Wing-in-Ground (WIG) craft"
1169:
1135:
1105:Ground effect (aerodynamics)
930:
861:University of Duisburg-Essen
591:, developed during the 1970s
371:Advantages and disadvantages
124:экранопла́н – "screenglider"
7:
2946:Tethered (static or towed)
2358:Abramowski, Tomasz (2007).
2334:Rae, Sally (May 26, 2024).
2262:Blain, Loz (May 24, 2022).
1629:"Introducing the AirFish 8"
1551:Taylor, John W. R. (1978).
1088:
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2904:Lift: Lighter than air gas
2421:Forsberg, Randall (1995).
1633:Wigetworks Private Limited
1291:interestingengineering.com
810:
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992:Aerocon Dash 1.6 wingship
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2402:Fishwick, Simon (2001).
1140:
1072:Around mid-2022, the US
1067:Southern Airways Express
1009:
3102:Aircraft configurations
2738:"Das Albatross-Prinzip"
2594:10.14339/RTO-TR-AVT-081
1525:Beriev Aircraft Company
1375:NASA Aeronautic Academy
298:Reverse-delta wing; (C)
3117:Ground effect vehicles
3042:Ground-effect vehicles
2918:Unpowered free flight
2537:Nebylov, A.V. (2002).
2465:. Oxford, UK: Osprey.
2443:(September 16, 2011).
2388:on September 22, 2010.
2373:(2). Warsaw: 425–436.
2220:"Is It a Flying Boat?"
1987:. 2009. Archived from
1791:(September 30, 1994).
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755:longitudinal stability
691:so far, the 125-tonne
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525:Artist's concept of a
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3050:experimental aircraft
2910:Lift: Unpowered rotor
2772:on November 25, 2009.
2732:on November 10, 2005.
2197:Aerospace Tech Review
1699:on September 29, 2013
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589:Bartini Beriev VVA-14
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96:wing-in-ground-effect
88:ground-effect vehicle
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2941:(None – see note 2)
2913:Lift: Powered rotor
2715:on December 7, 2015.
2445:"Faster than a Boat"
1760:Flight International
1195:2nd Annual Ship Tech
990:(DARPA) studied the
553:attempted ..."
399:improve this article
319:Used by the Russian
171:improve this article
3097:Amphibious vehicles
2782:Sungwoo Engineering
2691:on January 10, 2009
2199:. December 31, 2021
2147:on February 5, 2018
2111:. January 5, 2018.
1500:on February 6, 2012
1347:. September 4, 2018
1261:2006PrAeS..42..211R
1130:Caspian Sea Monster
1125:Surface effect ship
1110:Ground-effect train
892:SAAF Port Elizabeth
682:Minister of Defence
669:Caspian Sea Monster
282:Wing configurations
207:lift-dependent drag
104:ground-effect craft
3031:balloon helicopter
1905:on October 1, 2010
1794:Technology Roadmap
1669:on October 9, 2007
1431:. August 29, 2019.
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569:Alexander Lippisch
558:Rostislav Alexeyev
536:By the 1920s, the
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334:Alexander Lippisch
328:Reverse-delta wing
321:Rostislav Alexeyev
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21:Ekranoplan (album)
3112:Soviet inventions
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2796:. March 10, 2010.
2557:978-3-540-66277-8
2529:978-0-07-042313-8
2510:978-1-85780-332-7
2491:978-3-540-40645-7
2472:978-1-84176-096-4
2432:978-0-262-56085-6
1864:"19XRW Hoverwing"
1834:"18SPW Hoverwing"
1444:, pp. 80–83.
848:and the six-seat
842:Rhein Flugzeugbau
834:Arthur A. Collins
653:Nikita Khrushchev
571:, working in the
530:-class ekranoplan
462:form of multiple
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