Aerotime
JULY 10, 2025
In February 2023, DARPA selected General Atomics and Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to develop a large amphibious aircraft that would use the ground-effect principle to move heavy cargo at high speeds and low altitude over water.
Aerotime
JULY 17, 2025
It will also be autonomous and capable of delivering payloads of up to 50 lbs (22kgs) at speeds of 70 knots (80 mph / 128.7. Ground-in-wing vehicles (also called ground-effect-vehicles) use a physical phenomenon that enhances the aerodynamic performance of craft flying at very low altitude over bodies of water.
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Simple Flying
JUNE 7, 2024
DARPA is working to develop an ekranoplan called the Liberty Lifter with a payload capacity similar to the C-17 Globemaster. Ekranoplans (or ground-effect vehicles (GEVs)) are among the most interesting vehicles and combine a boat with a seaplane.
Flight Training Central
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Among the performance elements are takeoff and landing distances, rate of climb, ceiling, speed, payload, and fuel economy. What is ground effect? Ground effect is most likely to result in which problem? The result of an alteration in airflow patterns increasing induced drag about the wings of an airplane.
Aerotime
MAY 12, 2024
The US Department of Defense, through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), selected, on May 9, 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences to continue work on the development of a new generation seaplane with the capacity to carry up to 100 tons of payload. Virginia-based Aurora Flight Science will receive $8.3
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Resist pulling back, instead letting it accelerate in ground effect (or should we say water effect) for a few seconds. lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32 When the nose begins to tuck that’s your cue you’re climbing onto the step, so measure off the back pressure to make sure you don’t porpoise, then flatten the pitch to accelerate.
Aerotime
JULY 14, 2025
The Talay is a maritime kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which is designed to skim the surface of water at high speeds and very low altitudes by using the physical principle known as “ground effect”. First pioneered by the Soviets during the Cold War, ground-effect vehicles are experiencing a renaissance.
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