Things can get ugly and inefficient when a ground effect vehicle accidentally skims the water, adding significant drag that can drastically slow it down, wrench it sideways or just cost energy. One ...

In aviation, the term ground effect is meant to represent the reduced drag on the wing that occurs when the plane flies close to a fixed surface, meaning most of the time close to the ground. Thanks ...

There's a very discreet push these days to advance wing-in-ground-effect vehicles. Both private companies and the military are looking at ways of taking advantage of this technology to find new ways ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...

Formula 1 bids farewell to the current ground-effect cars in just a few races’ time, but how will the concept be remembered? Some of the F1 team bosses have had their say… F1 moves to an entirely ...

Ground Effect has played a pivotal role in modern Formula 1, but how does it effect the overall speed of current F1 cars? Trump asks Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in DOGE savings, hits NPR and ...

Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do not need as much weight as ...

Mercedes Technical Director James Allison explained why he doesn't particularly like the ground effect cars that were introduced in 2022, primarily due to the narrow 60mm bandwidth team engineers ...

Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso is keenly looking forward to the end of the ground-effect era with the series introducing a new set of regulations in 2026. F1 cars are set for changes ...