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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has released a new video of its revolutionary wing-in-ground-effect Liberty Lifter concept aircraft that it's developing for DARPA. The aircraft uses ground effect to lift heavy ...

If Aurora’s concept passes the Preliminary Design Review by 2025, it will be expected to float, fly and then demonstrate the Liberty Lifter by late-2027 or early 2028. Following General Atomics’ exit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Singapore’s ST Engineering is looking to expand beyond aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul into something it can call its own—and setting its sights on aircraft technology made famous by the ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on 1 February selected two companies to design wing-in-ground effect (WIG) concepts for Phase 1 of the Liberty Lifter programme. The 18-month ...

Peter Wright worked in F1 from the 1960's to the 1990's, in doing so he helped develop the ground effect era whilst at Lotus under the leadership of pioneer Colin Chapman. The British engineer now ...

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 ...