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ErrantX on April 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ekranoplan

One of these featured in the recent James Bond book, Devil May Care (decent book, not a patch on the originals).

Ground effect [1] is a really interesting phenomena.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aircraft)

arethuza on April 6, 2013 [–]

They also feature in Missile Gap by Charlie Stross (HN cstross):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Gap

packetslave on April 6, 2013 | [–]

Also featured briefly in the epilogue of Zero History by William Gibson (Bigend buys one)

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