Ah ekranoplans are awesome. They were referred to as caspian sea monsters, by the enemy forces as when they men were on boats they just saw these behemoth ships flying above the surface at 200 mph.. I think that would be enough to scare the crap out of anyone.
(the reason why they fly above the surface like that is because of the ground effect, which means you get 4 times the lift close to the ground as you do in the air)
You can find some videos if you search for ekranoplan.
There was also a class of them made with giant rockets on their back to take out carriers haha.
Wow, that is one ridiculous piece of engineering. Hard to believe something like that could actually fly. What possible reason would you ever construct something that big? Its too big to do anything..
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(the reason why they fly above the surface like that is because of the ground effect, which means you get 4 times the lift close to the ground as you do in the air)
You can find some videos if you search for ekranoplan.
There was also a class of them made with giant rockets on their back to take out carriers haha.
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Anyone knows of an automatic picture grabber / downloader that downloads em all for me?
hehe, we got them in WiC, just cause they are so retarded cool
IxenonI:
In Firefox
File -> Save Page As -> Save as type: Web Page, complete
Then just browse to the folder you just made all the images will be in there.
I'm sure IE can do the same thing.
I'd figure some big waves would make it cry if it flew so close to the water all the time. Or does it just turn into a boat with jet engines?
I MUST DO RESEARCH ON THIS!
A truly incredible machine.
But yes they are pretty much a boat with jet engines.