Ekranoplans—or ground-effect vehicles—are known mostly from Soviet experiments, but the U.S. once had plans for its own ...

During the height of the space race, the Soviet Union proposed a flying sea platform capable of launching spacecraft directly into orbit. This ekranoplan design would transport a space shuttle ...

Ekranoplans are a curious class of vehicle; most well known for several Soviet craft designed to ... and decided it was time to build an ekranoplan of his own. I want to see little ekranoplans ...

In the 1960s the Soviet Union began experimenting with what ... But after decades of testing, the ekranoplan never became much more than a curiosity for American intelligence agencies to ponder ...

For friends-turned-cofounders David Zagaynov, Parker Tenney, and Isaac Baumstark, that fixation was the ekranoplan — a Soviet hybrid boat-plane developed during the Cold War-era that skimmed ...