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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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The bottom of the vehicle must be formed to avoid excessive pressures on landing and taking off without sacrificing too much lateral stability, and it must not create too much spray, which damages the airframe and the engines. The
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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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Fischer took over the works from RFB and created his own company, Fischer Flugmechanik, which eventually completed two models. The Airfisch 3 carried two persons, and the FS-8 carried six persons. The FS-8 was to be developed by Fischer Flugmechanik for a Singapore-Australian joint venture
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German engineer Günther Jörg, who had worked on
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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consultancy period in South Africa. It was a simple and low-cost design of a first 4-seater tandem-airfoil flairboat completely constructed of aluminium. The prototype was in the
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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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1566:. London, UK: Jane's Yearbooks. pp. 70–71.
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2404:Aubin, S.Y.; de Monchaux, John (June 2001).
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1410:International Maritime Organization
783:(with revised hull design) and one
493:International Maritime Organization
2587:Seminar on Aeronautics & Space
2578:IX Conference for Young Scientists
2557:Rozhdestvensky, Kirill V. (2002).
2094:from the original on July 19, 2013
2064:from the original on April 7, 2018
2033:from the original on April 7, 2018
1949:from the original on July 7, 2015.
1505:Joint Stock Company Volga Shipyard
698:. It produced the most successful
25:
2825:"СВП с АР проекта А18 («Тунгус»)"
2406:Easy Ways to Study Ground Effects
2378:Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2299:Lagrone, Sam (February 1, 2023).
1885:from the original on June 2, 2011
1465:May, James (September 27, 2008).
1025:Iran deployed three squadrons of
847:. In 1963 Lippisch developed the
555:issued Technical Memorandum 771,
3079:) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g.
2813:"Ground Effect and WIG Vehicles"
2789:"Wing in the Ground Effect Ship"
2753:Airfoil Tandem W.I.G. Consulting
2673:Cole, William (September 2002).
2088:Wing Ship Technology Corporation
1960:Young, Lam Yi (April 25, 2010).
1748:10.3182/20070625-5-FR-2916.00113
1467:"Riding the Caspian Sea Monster"
1238:"Coastal Travel - 100% Electric"
1039:National University of Singapore
894:, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
390:
224:, the less drag it experiences.
162:
41:
2837:"Flying hovercraft project Wig"
2731:Edgar, Julian (March 5, 2002).
2229:Sissi Cao (December 16, 2021).
2052:Drew, James (August 28, 2015).
1935:Biggers, Chris (July 6, 2015).
1676:. March 1, 2000. Archived from
827:Lippisch Type and Hanno Fischer
800:dissolution of the Soviet Union
401:needs additional citations for
173:needs additional citations for
55:may be too short to adequately
2690:Teo, Francis (July 18, 2006).
2512:Soviet and Russian Ekranoplans
2334:– via www.newshub.co.nz.
1764:"USA joins Russia on Wingship"
1706:. July 5, 2007. Archived from
1704:South African Air Force Museum
1280:10.1016/j.paerosci.2006.10.001
1260:Progress in Aerospace Sciences
1131:List of ground-effect vehicles
791:remained at a naval base near
717:. The Soviet Navy ordered 120
65:provide an accessible overview
1:
2801:"The Lun, sitting in drydock"
2607:(inactive February 1, 2024).
2552:. Southampton, UK: WIT Press.
2436:. Boston, MA: The MIT Press.
2351:Otago Daily Times Online News
1531:"Be-2500 amphibious aircraft"
1325:Katz, Justin (May 27, 2022).
301:WIG-wings configurations: (A)
1406:"Wing-in-Ground (WIG) craft"
1116:Ground effect (aerodynamics)
872:University of Duisburg-Essen
602:, developed during the 1970s
382:Advantages and disadvantages
135:экранопла́н – "screenglider"
2957:Tethered (static or towed)
2369:Abramowski, Tomasz (2007).
2345:Rae, Sally (May 26, 2024).
2273:Blain, Loz (May 24, 2022).
1640:"Introducing the AirFish 8"
1562:Taylor, John W. R. (1978).
3144:
2915:Lift: Lighter than air gas
2432:Forsberg, Randall (1995).
1644:Wigetworks Private Limited
1302:interestingengineering.com
29:
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2240:– via The Observer.
1003:Aerocon Dash 1.6 wingship
651:
635:
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2413:Fishwick, Simon (2001).
1083:Around mid-2022, the US
1078:Southern Airways Express
3113:Aircraft configurations
2749:"Das Albatross-Prinzip"
2605:10.14339/RTO-TR-AVT-081
1536:Beriev Aircraft Company
1386:NASA Aeronautic Academy
309:Reverse-delta wing; (C)
3128:Ground effect vehicles
3053:Ground-effect vehicles
2929:Unpowered free flight
2548:Nebylov, A.V. (2002).
2476:. Oxford, UK: Osprey.
2454:(September 16, 2011).
2399:on September 22, 2010.
2384:(2). Warsaw: 425–436.
2231:"Is It a Flying Boat?"
1998:. 2009. Archived from
1802:(September 30, 1994).
1594:. 2008. Archived from
1507:. 2011. Archived from
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766:longitudinal stability
702:so far, the 125-tonne
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536:Artist's concept of a
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3061:experimental aircraft
2921:Lift: Unpowered rotor
2783:on November 25, 2009.
2743:on November 10, 2005.
2208:Aerospace Tech Review
1710:on September 29, 2013
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992:ultrasonic altimeters
889:
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107:wing-in-ground-effect
99:ground-effect vehicle
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2952:(None – see note 2)
2924:Lift: Powered rotor
2726:on December 7, 2015.
2456:"Faster than a Boat"
1771:Flight International
1206:2nd Annual Ship Tech
1001:(DARPA) studied the
564:attempted ..."
410:improve this article
330:Used by the Russian
182:improve this article
3108:Amphibious vehicles
2793:Sungwoo Engineering
2702:on January 10, 2009
2210:. December 31, 2021
2158:on February 5, 2018
2122:. January 5, 2018.
1511:on February 6, 2012
1358:. September 4, 2018
1272:2006PrAeS..42..211R
1141:Caspian Sea Monster
1136:Surface effect ship
1121:Ground-effect train
903:SAAF Port Elizabeth
693:Minister of Defence
680:Caspian Sea Monster
293:Wing configurations
218:lift-dependent drag
115:ground-effect craft
3042:balloon helicopter
1916:on October 1, 2010
1805:Technology Roadmap
1680:on October 9, 2007
1442:. August 29, 2019.
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580:Alexander Lippisch
569:Rostislav Alexeyev
547:By the 1920s, the
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339:Reverse-delta wing
332:Rostislav Alexeyev
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3123:Soviet inventions
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2568:978-3-540-66277-8
2540:978-0-07-042313-8
2521:978-1-85780-332-7
2502:978-3-540-40645-7
2483:978-1-84176-096-4
2443:978-0-262-56085-6
1875:"19XRW Hoverwing"
1845:"18SPW Hoverwing"
1455:, pp. 80–83.
859:and the six-seat
853:Rhein Flugzeugbau
845:Arthur A. Collins
664:Nikita Khrushchev
582:, working in the
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