Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Images of what is claimed to be a Chinese version of the famous Soviet Ekranoplan have found their way on the internet.

LONDON—French shipping company Brittany Ferries has signed an agreement with U.S. startup Regent to study the use of electric-powered wing-in-ground (WIG) vehicles for English Channel passenger ...

Russia has a long history of experimenting with wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicles, most notably the huge ekranoplans dating back to the 1960s. Now, Russian scientists are developing a smaller ...

Joint German companies Fischer Flugmechanik and Airfoil Development (FF/AD) plan to develop a 20-passenger wing-in-ground effect (WIG) vehicle. Hypercraft Associates, marketing the 90kt (170km/h) ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s new funding law requires the agency to collaborate with the US Coast Guard (USCG) to define regulatory oversight of wing-in-ground-effect (WIGs) vehicles, a move ...

A newly published request for information (RFI) revives DARPA’s on-again, off-again interest in revolutionary designs for wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicles once fielded by the Soviet Union’s ...

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — Three robbery suspects were arrested Thursday in a stolen vehicle with fake guns, a wig, a large amount of cash, a mask, and more in North Richland Hills Thursday, police ...

Images of what is claimed to be a Chinese version of the famous Soviet Ekranoplan have found their way on the internet. Technically called a wing-in-ground effect (WIG) vehicle, this is the first time ...