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 ...

Commercial wing-in-ground-effect startups may be even newer than their advanced air mobility cousins, such as urban air taxis and large UAVs, but they claim to have a fast pass to getting into service ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unveiling a Cold War Oddity: The Ground Effect Submarine Hunter! In the shadowy corners of Soviet aerospace innovation, a bizarre and ambitious creation once soared just above the waves — the ground ...

Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new project, one that should be familiar to aircraft—and ship—geeks. The Liberty Lifter seaplane transport will harness the ...

U.S. startup Flying Ship Technologies, which is building and marketing wing-in-ground-effect maritime cargo vessels, announced a so-called crowdsource-based funding effort March 28. According to a ...

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 ...

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 ...