"Anyone seen this?" Topic
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 Saber6  | 01 Aug 2014 11:26 a.m. PST |
link "The Caspian Seamonster" |
| MajorB | 01 Aug 2014 11:33 a.m. PST |
Tango01 usually posts about it every once in a while… BTW it's not a "hovecraft", it's a WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect). |
| jpattern2 | 01 Aug 2014 12:37 p.m. PST |
Seen it, have models of it.
I'm a long-time fan of wing-in-ground effect aircraft. |
| Lion in the Stars | 01 Aug 2014 12:51 p.m. PST |
I like smaller WiGE (I really prefer the Russian term, ekranoplan) as the real 'flying tanks'. They might use a big blower to push air under the wings to speed takeoff, but once moving they're more like airplanes. |
| Cold Steel | 01 Aug 2014 1:25 p.m. PST |
The Lun was such a great weapon platform, the Soviets built all of 1 and kept it in the Caspian Sea, where it was a threat to no one. |
| jpattern2 | 01 Aug 2014 3:17 p.m. PST |
My favorite WiGE of all time is the (West) German Lippisch X-114 from 1977:
I'd buy a model of the X-114, any scale, in a heartbeat. |
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