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  2. Ground-effect vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Ekranoplan A-90 Orlyonok. A ground-effect vehicle (GEV), also called a wing-in-ground-effect (WIGE or WIG), ground-effect craft/machine (GEM), wingship, flarecraft, surface effect vehicle or ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н – "screenglider"), is a vehicle that is able to move over the surface by gaining support from the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth or water.

  3. List of ground-effect vehicles - Wikipedia

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    This WIG craft has experienced about 100.000 km and is still in use in private property. TAF VIII-2, four-seater Tandem Airfoil Flairboat Typ Jörg II, built in 1983. Following the F&E and test period, Dipl. Ing. Günther Jörg was awarded with the "Phillip Morris Scientific Award" for the Transportation System for the future.

  4. Bartini Beriev VVA-14 - Wikipedia

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    The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Vertikaľno-Vzletayushchaya Amfibiya (vertical take-off amphibious aircraft) was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s. [1]

  5. Ground effect (aerodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    If the aircraft overrotates on take-off at too low a speed the increased drag can prevent the aircraft from leaving the ground. Two de Havilland Comets overran the end of the runway after overrotating. [25] [26] Loss of control may occur if one wing tip stalls in ground effect.

  6. RFB X-114 - Wikipedia

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    The RFB X-114 Aerofoil Craft was an experimental ground-effect vehicle intended to work over water, with the ability to fly out of ground effect when required. It was the last of three such aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch in the 1960s and early 1970s.

  7. US proposes training, pilot certification rules for air taxis

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    New rules are needed because many proposed aircraft take off and land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane to thei. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. aviation regulator said on Wednesday it was ...

  8. Antonov An-2 - Wikipedia

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    The An-2 can take off and land on unsurfaced airstrips. (Photo taken at Kunmadaras military airbase, Hungary.) An-2 on skis at Volosovo air field, [11] Chekhovsky District, Moscow region An-2 at Grand Junction aviation show. The An-2 is a mass-produced single-engine biplane that was deliberately furnished with a minimum of complex systems. The ...

  9. An Old Doctored Video of Trump’s ‘Wig’ Flying Off Recirculates

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    A 2019 video purporting to show a wig flying off Donald Trump’s head is spreading again online. Tweets, Instagram posts, and TikTok videos claim that a gust of wind removed the wig, ...