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WIG Craft and Ekranoplan
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This book aims to introduce you, our readers, to a new type of marine craft. At present there are still very few of these machines, though as long ago as the 1970s, a secret military craft of this type twice as large as a Boeing 747 airliner was already on trials in the Caspian Sea for the Russian Navy.
The subject is the wing-in-ground effect craft or WIG for short. The authors, together with a significant number of engineers and scientists around the world working on WIG craft small and large, feel that the technology has an important future as part of the marine transport spectrum. Since the technology and indeed the craft that have been built so far are not well known, this book first introduces the craft themselves, and the researchers who have developed them. Following this, the authors outline the various theoretical aspects and introduce the basic steps for design.
This book also introduces a number of acronyms and terms related to WIG technology. At present, engineers in different parts of the world have their own favourite terms, and there is often not common agreement. In this book, selection of terms has been made by the authors based on ease of understanding so far as possible.
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