| New Airfish-8 (WIG craft)Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:55:05 -0800 by flightboatIn 1997 FischerFlugmechanik granted a license to Flightship Ground Effect Pty for an 8-seated Ground Effect Craft of the first Generation. The craft was designed and built at AFD Airfoil Development GmbH. The design is based on the well proven Airfish design, and is intended to be used as a fast over water taxi. Flightship Ground Effect Pty intends to produce this craft under license. During the development of Airfish8, it was attempted to receive a classification for this Ground Effect Craft as a ship, which finally led to the success Airfish8 is certified now.FF was founded 1979 by Hanno Fischer based of his 30-years job experience as technical director of Rhein-Flugzeugbau GmbH (RFB), to implement his acquired knowledge in research, evolution and manufacturing of civil and military aircrafts, as well as military ground effect vehicles to business application.Based on work by Dr. Lippisch Hanno Fischer together with his business partner Klaus Matjasic developed the first civil ground effect vehicles called Airfish. The Airfoil Development GmbH (AFD) was founded 1997 by Klaus Matjasic and Hanno Fischer to evolve and produce, commissioned by an asian investor, an 8-seat ground effect vehicle by using the Airfish technology. In result of this project the AFD GmbH gets the official approval as the first worldwide producer in case of ground effect vehicles by the "Germanischer Lloyd". The AFD also gets the certification DIN ISO 9001 by the "Technischer Überwachungsverein" (TÜV) for deplopment and production of ground effect vehicles. Based on decades of experience in research oft he ground effect by Fischer Flugmechanik and its realisation into commercial products done by AFD Airfoil Development GmbH, the German Government "Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung" (BMBF) in cooperation with the research institute for "Binnenschiffbau Duisburg" (VBD), pushed further continously the developing of the second generation of ground effect vehicles, the protected Hoverwing Technology. The technical demonstrator HW 2VT, which is working in this advanced and patent protected technology, is another milestone in respect of the scaling to major sizes up to 200 seats. Related: ekranoplan "wig crafts" "ground effect" acv wise flightship "caspian sea monster" lippisch "hanno fischer" "klaus matjasic" wingship | |
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| Aquaglide 5 NEWWed, 17 Dec 2008 03:44:40 -0800 by flightboat«Aquaglide-5» accelerates speed up to 170 km/hour in cruise mode. No other type of high-speed passenger vessels is capable to compete with WIG-craft in this parameter. Transition to flight mode occurs at speed of 90 km/hour approximately. Such a speed is reached within 40-50 sec. while movement over the water and a little bit faster above snow or ice surface. Even at movement in displacement mode at speed up to 90 km/hour «Aquaglide-5» has obvious superiority against conventional passenger vessels due to better acceleration capability and maneuverability.Effi ciency of «Aquaglide-5» can be estimated by three basic criteria: achievement of qualitatively new level of transport services granting in regions with the developed transport network; an opportunity for creation of transport networks in areas and geographical zones where application of conventional vehicles is impossible or ineffective; commercial advantage. Low operational costs reached owing to minimum crew and maintenance staff, simple maintenance, applied hull and wings material (which does not demand special maintenance and does not corrode), absence of special demands for operation and maintenance infrastructure ensures high profitability of transport services. The WIG-craft brings the highest commercial advantage at passenger transportations on distances of 30 and more km.Comfortable interior of «Aquaglide-5» is equipped by passenger aircraft-type seats. Convenient allocation, practically all-around view due to the huge glazing area, comfortable entrance and exit through side doors make a trip on «Aquaglide-5» pleasant and unfatiguing. The additional factor improving comfort of passengers is the specific design of WIG-craft providing automatically balance of longitudinal and cross-section stability while maneuvers performance at high speed. At flight with cruise speed in screen mode passengers practically do not feel any vibrations and fluctuations of the hull. At parking on the water passengers of WIG-craft can leave it straight on wings. Related: ekranoplan "wig crafts" "ground effect" wige acv airfoil flairboat hoverwing flyship flightship airfish | |
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| FLYSHIP 80 (part 2)Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:36:25 -0800 by flightboatThe FLYSHIP 80 is a new and highly-innovative mean of transport for passenger traffic between the city centres, the harbours of coast cities, semi-enclosed seas and big inland waters. For the first time, a flying ship is available using the ecologically and economically likewise interesting ground effect and allowing hundred millions of passengers to travel faster, more comfortable and more cost-efficient. Reason: the FLYSHIP 80 closes the gap in global passenger traffic between the slow ship and the fast airplane. FLYSHIP 80 can use existing infrastructure facilities in the harbours easily; additional investments are not necessary. The FLYSHIP 80 requires only a quay with a gangway or a pontoon for embarking and disembarking. Airports and streets are unburdened as well as energy is saved, because the transportation with ground effect is clearly more efficient than with all other high speed carriers. The inventors and pioneers Alexander Lippisch and Hanno Fischer developed for the first time a total concept with which a "flying ship" is able to lift off from water and reach ground effect without the use of heavy and extensive electronics. Even bigger aircraft with much weight on board (for example large passenger numbers) can overpower the resistance of the water easily and can make the transition into the comfortable ground effect flight position, without an essentially higher engine performance than necessary for the actual ground effect flight. The lift off aid developed by Fischer Flugmechanik for the generation Hoverwing is an air cushion which is created by a part of the propeller stream under the hull between the two catamaran floats of the vessel, while a front and a stern skirt similar to those used in a hovercraft seals forward and aft. After lift off, the skirts automatically fold back. Through this principle, also the dangerous "pitch movement" can be avoided after the start. Hoverwing 2VT (FLYSHIP - 80 in the scale 1:3,35) during the first flight on the lake Baldeneysee. The two-seater prototype exists since 1996. The test craft of Hoverwing 2VT operated over 3.000 kilometres until now and proved efficiency of the concept covered by a multiplicity of measurements. For the first time, a ground effect vehicle for passenger transportation was licensed under the construction inspection of Germanischer Lloyd with the following class sign +100 A0 WIG A , WH 0,5/1,5 EXP . At the same time, the serial of the Airfish technology finished for the Airfish 8 with this admission. The FLYSHIP 80 can be used in all ports around the world to clearly ease connections between 150 km until 800 km for passengers. With travel speeds of 210 km per hour, it means travel times between 45 minutes and four hours. The route potential is enormous, whether within the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, in wide regions of the Mediterranean, between Spanish, French coasts and the Balearic, between the Greek islands, between Adriatic and Croatia, in the Caribbean, in the Red Sea or between the Maldives - for passengers enormous advantages open up because they don't need time-consuming driving to airports located outside the cities. They just board in the heart of the coast cities, the harbours. Some examples for itineraries from the Mediterranean area: Spain: Barcelona - Palma de Mallorca, France: Monaco-Cannes-St Tropez -Toulon, Greece: Piraeus-Heraklion. These are only some examples from an area in which approximately 150 million passengers per year travel between the coast cities by ferry. World-wide, this number climbs up to over 1,3 billion customers, an enormous potential from which the FLYSHIP 80 can use a not insignificant magnitude for itself long-term. Related: ekranoplan wig crafts ground effect wige acv airfoil flairboat hoverwing flyship flightship airfish | |
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| FLYSHIP 80 (part 1)Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:06:07 -0800 by flightboatFLYSHIP 80 uses a peculiarity of the physics: the almost weightless hovering - like an Albatross, over the water, -. The revolutionizing realization of the concept to a transportation will change the passenger traffic between the coasts of the Mediterranean, from north- or Baltic sea, the Caribbean the red sea and other big waters.Because on basis of the guidelines of the IMO (International MaritimeOrganization ), and the MSC, Maritime Safety Committee, the FLYSHIP80 is regarded as a ship. The first FLYSHIP 80 probably enters operation in 2011 for distances between 150 km and approximately 800 km in order to transport up to 80 passengers between the coasts of inner seas and selected big inner waters.Under leadership of the engineer Dr.-Ing. Ulf-Dieter Ulken, who is well experienced in shipbuilding and financed through private investors, FLYSHIP 80 converts an idea as license taker of secured patents that were developed worked out and approved for more than 30 years. This idea of a transportation, that uses the so-called ground effect, needs only approximately two third of the energy, that is necessary for flying in higher regions.Dr. Ing. Ulf-Dieter Ulken made his passion - flying and shipping - to his occupation. Already in 1981, he received his private pilot license and began to study aircraft engineering 1982 at the technical University in Braunschweig. 1985 Dr. Ulken shifted to the technical university Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) which was newly established at that time, and continued his study in ship mechanical engineering.Hanno Fischer, former technical director of RFB (Rhein Flugzeugbau), is the inventor of the Hoverwing principle which is taken as a basis for the production of FLYSHIP 80.Hanno Fischer designs his colourful "Airfish" as a result and advanced it with several models. His newest throw is the "Hoverwing 2VT", a vehicle that is, thanks to a refined starting system, the most modern WIG in the world. With this new design the contact with the water is reduced as far as possible. The propeller is mounted on a pylon with a door that can be opened and closed. A small part of the propeller stream is caught with it. Through two skirts, one at the bow and one at the stern, an air cushion is created under the hull. It lightens the vehicle about round 80 percent.Hanno Fischer has licensed his patents to FLYSHIP 80 and therefore allows the conversion of the best WIG-concept and the realization of a revolutionary passenger transportation system.The ground effect allows an extraordinarily economic as well as thrifty flight with considerably lower fuel consumption as in free flight. The ground effect frequently was used already during the Second World War by pilots returning home, if they had only little fuel left. They flew back very close above the ground.The ground effect is an especially economic and ecological possibility of swift and comfortable locomotion. However, special construction characteristics are necessary in order to solve the physical problems which threaten the utilization of the ground effect. The problem is that the balance point of lift in free flight is located relatively far in front of the wing. It lies approximately within 1/3 of the so-called cord length. With maximum ground effect, however, this moves backwards to the centre of area located approximately 1/2 of the cord length. Related: ekranoplan wig crafts ground effect wige acv airfoil flairboat hoverwing | |
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| WIG - Wing in Ground EffectThu, 06 Mar 2008 11:16:43 -0800 by jannej312A Wing In Ground-effect vehicle (WIG), is a vehicle that cruises little more than a few feet over flat surfaces, most often water. It can be seen as a transition between a hovercraft and an aircraft. As it flies just above a surface, it is also classified as WISE or WISES (Wing In Surface Effect Ship). WIGs are also classified as Ground Effect Vehicles, or Sea Skimmers. The IMO has classifed the WIGs as ship, with effect of (GEV).[1] In conventional aircraft, "flare" is the rotation of the aircraft's nose up, used at the final part of landing to arrest the descent rate before touch down. In WIG vehicles, this is the basic attitude to sustain level flight.See also:http://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Wing-I n-Ground_effect_vehi cle Related: wing in ground-effect vehicle (wig) cruises few feet over water hoverwing hanno fischer airplane boat | |
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| Selling Ekranoplan Wing in ground effect Flying shipSun, 03 Feb 2008 08:09:07 -0800 by pingfaninsghttp://www.sea-eagle .org Commerical Ekranoplan flying in Australia, China, South East Asia.The Sea Eagle bridges the gap between maritime and air transportation. Classified as a Class B WIG Craft Class B(Wing-in-Ground Effect Craft) by the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Sea Eagle is basically a hybrid between a boat and an airplane, combining the benefits of both worlds while eliminating most of their disadvantages. We are one of the primary WIG manufacturer in Asia that has achieve Class B Wing in Ground Effect status. Our WIG can withstand inter sea travel, and can do dynamic jump up to 50 meter above the sea.Wing-in-Ground effect crafts skim very low over the water, typically at a height of 10 to 50% of their wing span. Due to the pressure increase under the wing at these low altitudes, the lift generated is up to 80 % greater than when the wings are out of ground effect, and the aerodynamic drag is almost eliminated. This double effect makes wing-in-ground effect crafts extremely efficient vehicles, requiring significantly less fuel than an aircraft needs to cover the same area, with the same payload.Ground effect as a theoretical category is an asymptotic value which decreases with increase of altitude. Theoretically it reduces to zero at very high altitudes. For practical reasons, the IMO has determined that a craft is considered to be in ground effect when its altitude is equivalent to 50 % of the average of its wing chord.* WIG craft reduces the cost of IMO licensing of the craft.* WIG craft reduces the cost of the hull, using marine hull, instead of aircraft hull.* WIG craft reduces the ownership cost by 40% of the craft compared to a similar seaplane.* WIG craft reduces the infrastructure cost to nil. compare to the airport tax that planes has to pay.* WIG craft reduces the fuel cost by up to 75%, becos of its fuel efficieny while it is in ground effect.* WIG craft reduces the maintainence cost as the craft is made of composite fiber, and is corrosion free.The owner has lots of cost savings.Lun,contact: pingfaninsg at gmail dot com Related: wing in ground-effect vehicle (wig) cruises few feet over water hoverwing hanno fischer plane lun | |
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