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It seems fairly safe as these things go and looks like a lot of fun, but I’d like to see how it performs in even a mild crosswind. The high bid is only $14k? That’s NZ dollars?
I thought kiwis had lost the power of flight. 😀
A tiny ekranoplan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIr8bjg_o2U
#1, When you’re landing on water, x-wind doesn’t make that much difference. Just point her into the wind.
Recently read about a “ground effect” craft and this looks like it. Passenger carrying experimental aircraft without seat belts huh?
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but who is buying the next round of beers?
Remember the “Spruce Goose?” It was a flying boat as well.
Didn’t the USSR have a monster ground effect plane?
Tried to find a wig article on the new searchable data base at Posci magazine and not too much there. The site is link worthy nonetheless.
http://popsci.com/archives
Looks nice and smooth — didn’t see how it goes on land, though. Might be a bit inconvenient unless those wings fold or come off. Wonder what kind of mileage it gets?
Trees and aircraft don’t mix well. Yet, that flight reminded me that above a certain speed it all hurts the same.
And he uses it to process Orbitz refunds in his spare time.
It’s Flash, so I can’t see it with the Crapple Iphone.
I submitted this to DU a week ago.
Why when I press return to video, I goes to differnt video and not the same one?