Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Images of what is claimed to be a Chinese version of the famous Soviet Ekranoplan have found their way on the internet.

Russia has a long history of experimenting with wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicles, most notably the huge ekranoplans dating back to the 1960s. Now, Russian scientists are developing a smaller ...

Joint German companies Fischer Flugmechanik and Airfoil Development (FF/AD) plan to develop a 20-passenger wing-in-ground effect (WIG) vehicle. Hypercraft Associates, marketing the 90kt (170km/h) ...

LONDON—French shipping company Brittany Ferries has signed an agreement with U.S. startup Regent to study the use of electric-powered wing-in-ground (WIG) vehicles for English Channel passenger ...

A newly published request for information (RFI) revives DARPA’s on-again, off-again interest in revolutionary designs for wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicles once fielded by the Soviet Union’s ...

Images of what is claimed to be a Chinese version of the famous Soviet Ekranoplan have found their way on the internet. Technically called a wing-in-ground effect (WIG) vehicle, this is the first time ...