Tandem Wing Ground Effect Vehicle

The following is a list of wig or wing in ground effect craft also referred to as water skimming wingships or in russia ekranoplans.

Tandem wing ground effect vehicle. Tandem wings have also been used on ground effect vehicles. The tandem airfoil flairboat can be driven with a normal motor boat driving license. The emphasis on our design was to set the pressure generat. He was able to ensure static stability and controllability of the vehicle in longitudinal motion by a proper tuning of parameters of the forward and rear wings and their design pitch angles.

Jump to navigation jump to search. A ground effect vehicle needs some forward velocity to produce lift dynamically and the principal benefit of operating a wing in ground effect is to reduce its lift dependent drag. In a tandem wing design the lift vectors on the two wings are spread far apart longitudinally allowing them to act in concert to achieve stability and control. The basic design principle is that the closer the wing operates to an external surface such as the ground when it is said to be in ground effect the more efficient it becomes.

Tandem airfoil flairboats are included in this category of type a wing in ground effect vehicles with less stringent approval requirements. A quick experiment to test a ground effect vehicle wing design that we had devised using javafoil. Beginning from 1963 günther jörg in germany designed and built a series of ground effect vehicles taf tandem airfoil flairboat based on the idea of arranging two stubby wings in tandem fig. An a 90 orlyonok a soviet era ground effect plane.

Rc ground effect vehicle are optimized for flying with low drag just like birds that travel great distance the form a v and fly just an inch above the water.