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    Finding the KM Ekranoplan

    Hello World, Do any of you know what I could do to find the coordinates of the final resting place of the KM (KM-1) Ekranoplan? This is the Ekranoplan that sank in the Caspian in 1980 and was not (as far as we know) recovered. This is not the LUN missile carrier that is currently beached in...
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    Prototypes and projects from Latvia's RKIIGA

    The world-famous RKIIGA (Riga Red Banner Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers) will celebrate its 106th anniversary in May 2025. Its history started in 1919 when the School of Aviation Mechanics was opened in Kyiv, which later continued its work in Riga. The institute changed names several...
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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    Sea Cheetah hydrogen WIG

    Source: AEROSPACE Magazine, November 2024 Official website: https://seacheetah.com/
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    Bartini and his Projects Vol. 4 by Konstantin Udalov and Marek Rys: Combat Ekranoplans

    Удалов К. Г., Рысь Марек Бартини и его проекты. Том 4. Боевые экранопланы. - Москва. 2021 г., 176 с. ISBN: 978-5-4465-3169-1 Hi! I had the opportunity to read Konstantin Udalovs latest book of his publication series about Bartinis work and designs (this is Vol. 4). This time he covers the...
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    Large Weilandcraft is built

    The United States has never built an ekranoplan comparable in size to the KM or Lun ekranoplan, although the Aerocon Wingship, Boeing Pelican ULTRA, and Large Weilandcraft are the closest the US ever came to designing giant transport ekranoplans. The Large Weilandcraft would have been a colossus...
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    Lippisch-inspired WIG aircraft: Hoverwing, Airfish, Seawing, FlightShip...

    Hi, http://www.oriontechnologies.net/Documents/matrix.pdf
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    Naval Surface Warfare Center/NAVAIR Battleforce Seaplane designs

    Source: THE POTENTIAL EFFECT OF MATURING TECHNOLOGY UPON FUTURE SEAPLANES by Mr. August Bellanca & Ms. Carey Matthews, April 2005
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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    Alexeyev Design Bureau Hydrofoil And WIG Designs

    Hi, Please note the designs of Alexeyev. http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=IJOm1XDn0moC&printsec=frontcover&dq=aircraft+joined-wing&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=true
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    • central hydrofoil design bureau cold war commonwealth of independent states hydrofoil post-cold war red fleet russian federation soviet navy soviet union sukhoi ussr wig wing in ground
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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    Postwar Beriev flying boat and amphibian projects

    Models of ekranoplan aircraft carrier and T-20A transport ekranoplan designed by Robert Bartini while at Beriev Aircraft Corporation. Source: http://www.beriev.com/eng/Pr_rel_e/pr_110e.html
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    • 20th century anti-submarine warfare civil aviation cold war commonwealth of independent states early 21st century flying boat post-cold war post-world war ii red fleet russian federation seaplane soviet union transport aircraft unmanned aerial vehicle ussr wig
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    Why are there no WIG Type Unmanned Surface Vehicles

    While reading the following article, it baffles me why there are no modern examples of wing in ground (WIG) effect unmanned surface vessels Unmanned Surface Vehicles: Past, Present, and Future By Helmut H. Portmann, Seth L. Cooper, Mathew R. Norton, and David A. Newborn...
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    Various Ekranoplane and WIG projects

    Hi to all. WIG-projects by Ecolen company, Russia Info and mor pix see in www.avicopress.ru Regards
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    Fletcher Glidemobile

    Is there any reliable information available about the Glidemobile hovercraft designed by man named Charles Fletcher during the WWII? The little information i have found only seems to describe later legal battles concerning the origin of the hovercraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft...
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    UTVA Ekranoplan

    Hi, we know the Yugoslavian company,the UTVA ,it designed a beautiful Ekranoplan in 1990 and can carry 60 passengers,powered by six turboprops.Sukhoi offered its support to develope it as "S-88" to accommodated 120-seat,it is first time to know that Sukhoi had a project called S-88 ...
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    Kawasaki Air-Cushion Boat

    Hi, the Kawasaki ram-wing twin boom craft or vehicle,it was powered by one 80 hp Mercedes and had estimatd speed of 68 mph. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1962/1962%20-%202749.html?search=campini%20aircraft
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    Boeing LOBOY Anti-submarine WIG, 1965

    In the mid-1960s, the Boeing Company published a study for a concept of LOBOY, a wing-in-ground effect ASW aircraft. This concept was unusual because the vehicle had a wing aspect ratio of 12, much greater than conventional WIGs with aspect ratios of from 1 to 5. Also, the wings did not have end...
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