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OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/12/2012 2:50:52 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/12/2012 5:17:18 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/12/2012 6:07:35 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/12/2012 6:59:50 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/12/2012 8:28:34 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/12/2012 9:07:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Caspian Sea Monster is what the intelligence officers would call them. And yes they did cause much consternation in USN when they were first recce'd. IIRC, their existence was classified well above normal level for a Soviet weapon system.

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 6:35:33 AM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 9:11:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		She doesn't fly as much as uses a form of airflow direction to achieve ground effect lift, this is also commonly called "Wing in Ground"
Linky to Youtube video of it crusing around

There have been at various times folks who have tried to start or jump start a WiG company. The problem is they currently lie, in the US at least, in a grey legal area. They are aircraft but operate on the ocean so the FAA and USCG both have rules about them. Add in that they are just like hovercraft in that to get cost savings in the cargo carried you need to have a huge design with a number of engines and about half of the body is eaten up by gas tanks.

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 1:02:20 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 4:10:10 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aces8

Yeah but can she fly?



Define fly? BTW , I like the new avatar!

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 4:12:55 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aces8

Yeah but can she fly?



Fly...no. However, 200 knts for a surface craft is pretty impressive.

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 4:34:11 PM   
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Ahhh... Caspian Monster...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM_%28Ground_effect_vehicle%29




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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 9:42:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aces8

Yeah but can she fly?


Bumblebees do.....

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 10:06:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		Got to 42 degrees 52 minutes 54.51 seconds N latitude and 47 degrees 39 minutes 24.76 seconds E latitude in Google earth and you should see this behemoth.

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 10:20:44 PM   
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Monster...


seems quite accurate. I had never known that someone ever developed this kind of craft into such size, or military service. Scary things, but also amazing.

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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 10:43:05 PM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/13/2012 10:59:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wm. Gibson's novel 'zero history' features an Ekranoplan towards the end, where advertising magnate Hubertus Bigend has bought one from the Russians & fitted it out as a high-speed luxury yacht.

the Sovs developed several models, for use in the Black Sea. I gather they can only fly at extremely low altitude, depending on a ground-effect 'cushion'.


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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/14/2012 12:50:40 AM   
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RE: OT-This one is pretty wild. - 8/14/2012 2:39:36 AM   
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