ground effect vehicle , GEV (Abkürzung)

The difference is dependent on the specific design of the ground effect vehicle.

This obstacle is more difficult for ground effect vehicles with short production runs to overcome.

At the same time, it is thought the ground effect vehicle will be armed with cruise missiles.

Ground effect vehicles, which straddle the line between aircraft and ship, have also been proposed for the role in the past.

I've only counted a dozen floaters"ground effect vehicles"so far.

His human-powered aircraft was actually a ground effect vehicle that flew only inches above the ground.

The world's first ground effect vehicle designer Rostislav Alexeyev was born in the town.

Banners opened the rear door of a battered ground effects vehicle of no discoverable make.

Ground effect vehicles are similarly limited.

More than a dozen of the fast-moving light ground effect vehicles Carter had come to call "skimmers" moved across the spaceport.

In 2001, the airfield saw the rollout of the Airfisch Ground effect vehicle, designed to fly only two metres above the water's surface.

Burevestnik-24 is a Russian experimental civil piston ground effect vehicle (GEV) of an original design.

Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans, will likely crash on any but the flattest of landmasses so are also not considered to be amphibious vehicles.

He heard Roger say, "It worked in Budapest..." The first ground effect vehicle approached the line of dinner plates and stopped.

Like conventional aircraft, greater power is needed for takeoff, and, like seaplanes, ground effect vehicles must get on the step before they can accelerate to flight speed.

Snake and EVA travel to a lake, where a WIG ground effect vehicle is hidden.

Joseph George Ground Effect Vehicle, Physics-edu (private) website.

The RFB X-113 Aerofoil Boat was an experimental ground effect vehicle intended to work over water.

Although they might look similar and/or have related technical characteristics, ground effect vehicles are not aircraft, seaplanes, hovercraft, or hydrofoils-ground effect is a separate technology altogether.

Finally, limited utility has kept production levels low enough that it has been impossible to amortize development costs sufficiently to make ground effect vehicles competitive with conventional aircraft.

He'd never seen one of the two-person ground effect vehicles up close, but the ads said it would go over any land or swamp terrain as well as calm water.

G.E.V.s ("ground effect vehicles"-roughly, heavily armored hovercraft) have very high speed (moving twice per turn), low attack, low range, and moderate defense.

Powered fixed-wing aircraft that gain forward thrust from an engine (aeroplanes) include powered paragliders, powered hang gliders and some ground effect vehicles.

In modern times, propellers are most prevalent on watercraft and aircraft, as well as some amphibious vehicles such as hovercraft and ground effect vehicles.

After extensive research and experimentation, it has been shown that "phase radio-altimeters" are most suitable for ground effect vehicles, as compared to laser, isotropic or ultrasonic altimeters.