The U.S. military is reviving an old Soviet-era concept with a new, cutting-edge aircraft—the Liberty Lifter. Designed to skim just above the ocean’s surface using the ground effect, this massive ...

[rctestflight] had accidentally come across the ground effect flight regime himself years ago, and decided it was time to build an ekranoplan of his own. I want to see little ekranoplans in at ...

In the 1980s, an American engineer had a bold vision—to build an ekranoplan 10 times bigger than the Soviet Union’s Caspian ...

Less a plane than "a boat that flies," the giant Ekranoplan represented a completely new kind of vehicle when a champagne bottle was cracked against its nose and it slid into the Caspian Sea in 1966.

But after decades of testing, the ekranoplan never became much more than a curiosity for American intelligence agencies to ponder over. Now [Peter Sripol] has built his own version of what the CIA ...