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Is This A Plane Or Some Kind Of Hydrofoil?  
User currently offlineAirplanepics From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2003, 2725 posts, RR: 45
Posted (7 years 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2551 times:

Hi all,

Just come across this picture:


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Is this actually a plane? Or is it some kind of Hydrofoil / Hovercraft? By the look's of it it doesn't actually have any wings!

Regards,

Simon Nicholls


Simon - London-Aviation.com
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User currently offlineNewark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33
Reply 1, posted (7 years 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2539 times:

Looks like an ekranoplan according to the remarks.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan

Harry


Why grab a Heine when you can grab a Busch?
User currently offlineKFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3262 posts, RR: 33
Reply 2, posted (7 years 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2508 times:

Or a more commonly-used English term is WIG, for "Wing In Ground-effect":

http://www.se-technology.com/wig/index.php

Even Boeing at one point had a conceptual design for a craft of this nature, the "Pelican":



http://foxxaero.homestead.com/indrad_043.html

Bryan


"About the only way to look at it, just a pity you are not POTUS KFLLCFII, seems as if we would all be better off."
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