There are a number of famous (yet fictional) sea monsters in the lakes and oceans around the world, but in the Caspian Sea one turned out to be real. This is where the first vehicles specifically ...
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, ...
A new ekranoplan, or ground-effect vehicle, design emerging from China was first noted earlier this week. Now a new image offers our first look at the whole airframe. An ekranoplan, derived from the ...
Enter YouTube radio control vehicle tinkerer Daniel Riley, who goes by RCTestFlight. Riley has taken a particular interest in ground effect vehicles over the last decade or so, creating his own R/C ...
At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, CIA analysts spotted a mystery vehicle being developed on the Caspian coastline of Soviet Russia. The craft was dubbed the “Caspian Sea Monster” and was ...
A Russian photographer snuck into the world’s only nuclear-capable, ground-effect vehicle and captured rare images of its interior. This is the Lun-class ekranoplan, a formerly top-secret Soviet naval ...
Beached for over a year on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast – something bizarre perhaps more at home beneath the water than in the air. It certainly ...
Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. After writing the post "Bring Back the Ekranoplan," praising ...