The USSR explored a colossal ground effect vehicle designed to carry and launch an entire two part spacecraft from the open ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, CIA analysts spotted a mystery vehicle being developed on the Caspian coastline of Soviet Russia. The craft was dubbed the “Caspian Sea Monster” and was ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: There have been rumblings that there could be interest in building new ekranoplans, but no firm progress yet. Between the 1960s and the early 1990s,... Here’s What You ...

A new ekranoplan, or ground-effect vehicle, design emerging from China was first noted earlier this week. Now a new image offers our first look at the whole airframe. An ekranoplan, derived from the ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the termination of the Liberty Lifter program, its heavy-lift ground-effect aircraft development initiative. Launched in 2023, ...

If there’s one thing [rctestflight] likes, it’s… probably radio controlled test flights. If there are two things [rctestflights] likes, the second one is probably ground-effect vehicles, AKA ...