We all know how a perfectly quiet life can be turned on its head by a disaster or an accident, natural or man-made. No matter their nature, such things are also something that brings people together, ...

Rhode Island-based startup Regent Craft has successfully completed the first test of its full-size electric seaglider with passengers on board, validating the company's idea for a new kind of ...

In aviation, the term ground effect is meant to represent the reduced drag on the wing that occurs when the plane flies close to a fixed surface, meaning most of the time close to the ground. Thanks ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...

After four years, F1 is closing the door on its revisit of the ground effect concept. Here's what to expect from the next generation of Formula One cars. When the ground effect regulations were ...

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 ...

Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do not need as much weight as ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

Mercedes Technical Director James Allison explained why he doesn't particularly like the ground effect cars that were introduced in 2022, primarily due to the narrow 60mm bandwidth team engineers ...

The title was developed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch and utilizes the platform’s trademark accelerometer as well as touch controls. Ground Effect is a unique 3D, classic arcade-style ...