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DARPA Developing Wing-in-Ground Effect Cargo Seaplane
- LouDNL 4y agoMade me think of this https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381/russia-ekranoplan-plane-boat-wrecked/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
- T3OU-736 4y agoReminds me of USSR's "экраноплан" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle). Wonder if it will be able overcome the challenges inherent to the setup.
- gardenfelder 4y agoSee the Alexander Lippish historic project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_X-113 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_X-113