Simple Flying

JUNE 7, 2024

DARPA is working to develop an ekranoplan called the Liberty Lifter with a payload capacity similar to the C-17 Globemaster. Ekranoplans (or ground-effect vehicles (GEVs)) are among the most interesting vehicles and combine a boat with a seaplane.

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Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Among the performance elements are takeoff and landing distances, rate of climb, ceiling, speed, payload, and fuel economy. What is ground effect? Ground effect is most likely to result in which problem? The result of an alteration in airflow patterns increasing induced drag about the wings of an airplane.

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Aerotime

MAY 12, 2024

The US Department of Defense, through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), selected, on May 9, 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences to continue work on the development of a new generation seaplane with the capacity to carry up to 100 tons of payload. Virginia-based Aurora Flight Science will receive $8.3

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