Why sort WIG as a ship?

vinety, please do not resurrect old threads, also is there a need to post 9 times one after the other? surely these posts can be combined to one?
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Dean

If you leave ground effect you have to comply with aviation rules.
vinety

If you want to learn more about WIG, visit my site http://www.vinety.com

You now can see more photos of a WIG called the EXOCET. A personnal project which I start to grind 20 yrs ago. I am really working on it since yr 2000. The design is complete. It is documented on my site Http://www.vinety.com . It is almost finished.

Ekranoplans are cool, I’d like to see more of them 🙂

Here is some more info http://www.att-nn.com/ENGL/n_projects.htm and http://www.samolet.co.uk/ekranoplan.html

Great photos. Thank you for them.

Yes its a close future for a crafts that requires 50% less fuel for the same speed. Its very economical. in today’s trend it is the best transport solution for many contryes and public services.

Is this concept a failure ???.. why is this concept developed further apart from Russkies.

We will see more WIG in the future. I beleive that it is the toy that all grown
boys will want.

It is great but the greatest is making my own. It requires plenty of research, but it worth it. On my site I tell the story of my EXOCET, my WIG. I also describe the various step for building one. If you visit VINETY.com, you will anderstand.

Excellent stuff! I think WIG craft are great.

I think its so great that I am building my own WIG. You can see it on my site
VINETY.COM

Great stuff, we used to draw these things from our imagination as children, who would have thought they would ever have been built 😎

I had the same impression 20 yrs ago. Now I have design my own WIG and it is no more a dream, it’s reality. You can see my WIG on my site VINETY.co,

If you leave ground effect, your no longer a WIG and then you have to comply with aviation rules

WIG – Wing In Ground Effect. so it doesn’t leave the ground cushion to achieve the status of ‘flight’ :p

If you leave ground effect you have to comply with aviation rules.
vinety

Ekranoplans are cool, I’d like to see more of them 🙂

Here is some more info http://www.att-nn.com/ENGL/n_projects.htm and http://www.samolet.co.uk/ekranoplan.html

Great stuff, we used to draw these things from our imagination as children, who would have thought they would ever have been built 😎

Ekranoplans are cool, I’d like to see more of them 🙂

Here is some more info http://www.att-nn.com/ENGL/n_projects.htm and http://www.samolet.co.uk/ekranoplan.html

Excellent stuff! I think WIG craft are great.

The best pictures are colour 😉

These are taken from one of my favourite books, Russia’s Ekranoplans by Sergey Komissarov, Vol. 8 in the Red Star series.

Basically. the Russians didn’t have the money to continue development of these massive ‘vehicles’ and smaller craft have found a niche.

By the way, nice pictures ‘Level’

Is this concept a failure ???.. why is this concept developed further apart from Russkies.

failure? I don’t think so. WIG ship has bright future 😉

Here are sea trial video of Seagull 4(prototype).

Sea trial: High Taxing

Sea trial: Take off

Sea trial: Cruising

Sea trial: Landing

Mass production model. now under production.

WIG news video

Is this concept a failure ???.. why is this concept developed further apart from Russkies.

The King of Wigs must be the Russian Ekranoplans, some of them look like the designers have been watching illicit copies of Thunderbirds….Here is a history of them:
http://aquaglide.ru/history_e.htm

And 2 pictures taken from that site:

WIG – Wing In Ground Effect. so it doesn’t leave the ground cushion to achieve the status of ‘flight’ :p