All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an ...

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 ...

The video shows how Liberty Lifter can combine heavy-lift transport at the scale of a ship with the speed of an aircraft for fast logistics missions in a sea environment. Aurora Flight Sciences, which ...

The remarkable Seaglider promises a clean revolution in coastal transport; the convenience of an electric boat meets the speed and comfort of an aircraft, at unparalleled efficiency and range thanks ...

This wing configuration allows a wing-in-ground effect vehicle to fly at altitudes up to 50% of its wingspan, letting it rise higher when conditions are choppier where the Ekranoplans of the day had ...

There's a very discreet push these days to advance wing-in-ground-effect vehicles. Both private companies and the military are looking at ways of taking advantage of this technology to find new ways ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utah battery company Electric Power Systems (EPS) has joined an effort by start-up Regent Craft to develop a wing-in-ground effect passenger vehicle. EPS disclosed the partnership on 20 April, saying ...

Flying on a Flexjet Gulfstream G450 from Teterboro to Cleveland and Back in a Day Flying privately, we were able to spend most of the day in Cleveland and get home before dinner.

The US military is exploring the potential of an experimental amphibian wing-in-ground-effect vehicle to improve logistics in maritime environments. The US Marine Corps (USMC) is contracting with ...