Rhode Island-based startup Regent Craft has successfully completed the first test of its full-size electric seaglider with passengers on board, validating the company's idea for a new kind of ...

Wing-in-ground effect aircraft: Extreme efficiency and low cost As we've seen with the fossil-fueled Airfish-8 and the battery-electric hydrofoiling Regent Viceroy Seaglider – not to mention Howard ...

Although Hawaii used to have a ferry service to access the various islands in the archipelago, due to environmental and political issues, air travel is now the only way to island-hop. Various ...

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 ...

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 ...

A grainy photo on China’s coast may have revealed a vehicle the world once dismissed as a dead end — a ground-effect “sea skimmer” built to fly just above the water and slip under radar. Inspired by ...

As we reported in our article about the new Chinese design, an ekranoplan uses the aerodynamic concept of ground effect to travel at high speeds just above the surface of water (or, less commonly, ...

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 ...