Mysterious, heavily shrouded vehicles were recently spotted rolling through Beijing under tight security, just as reports surfaced of China’s successful tests of a massive, sea-skimming ekranoplan in ...

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 ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

The Ekranoplan concept was born in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Its design stemmed from the discovery of the ground effect, a phenomenon in which an aircraft flying close to a ...

If there’s one thing [rctestflight] likes, it’s… probably radio controlled test flights. If there are two things [rctestflights] likes, the second one is probably ground-effect vehicles, AKA ...