There are probably a lot of things that fit that description, but the one that [Nick Rehm] is working on is known as an ekranoplan. Specifically, he’s looking to make the surface-skimming ground ...

[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 ...

With a crew of four to eight compared with the 5,600 people on a carrier, a sunk ekranoplan would represent tolerable losses, whereas a sunk carrier would be an utter catastrophe. If a sortie of ...