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 ...

Regent Craft Inc. successfully completed test flights of a quarter-scale model of its electric seaglider, a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle. The seaglider operates in three modes: floating, ...

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 ...

Ground effect vehicles are an exotic form of extremely low-flying aircraft, staying within their wingspan of the surface below to ride on a cushion of high-pressure air that gives them extra lift.

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 ...

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The seaglider is still in testing The company is building a 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Quonset One version will increase its range by replacing half the batteries with a turbo ...

It’s a boat. It’s a plane. It’s both. The Liberty Lifter X-plane is a concept for a ground effect vehicle for “seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift” according to the Defense Advanced Research ...

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In the mid-1980s, one man had a dream – a dream of a flying city that would be almost 10 times bigger than the Soviet Union's famous Caspian Sea Monster. This project, known as the Aerocon Wing Ship, ...