On Mar 21, 11:46 pm, Ground Effect <pingfani...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> there are many prototypes in the market, as far as I understand I also
> kept an encyclopedia of most WIG that I have come in hand
with.http://www.sea-eagle.org/node/28
>
> In US, there is only one company that does ground effect craft and
> carry passengers.
> In China, there are many R&D instituations developing in ground effect
> for millitary and commercial use
> In Korea, the government announce a 100 million budget fund to build
> the next generation WIG,
> In Australia, flight****p, and my company Sea Eagle are competing the
> market for South East Asia, and Asia Pacific. Though flight****p later
> bankrupt.
> In Japan, their plane are still in prototype.
> In Germany, there are some prototype coming out, currently some german
> company JV with singa****e R&D and Singa****e polytechnic to do test
> flying in year 2007
>
> Most of them are prototypes, and not many can fly more than 100 ft,
> and attain IMO Class B certification.
> When they are class A, means the craft cannot fly in volatile sea
> state or in stormy weather.
>
> The challenges for WIG currently is that the government of various
> countries has to approve special sea route for fast speed ****p.
> Especially buzy sea lane, the government owning such sea lanes are
> reluctant to approve fast moving ****p, in case of accident.
>
> hovercraft, WIG and plane all need to abide to the trans****t
> regulation of individual countries.
> recently a seaplane owner from australia fly to singa****e, without
> approval and without proper licensing, he was fine almost 100,000 SGD.
>
> there are more to come for such new industry
GE,
There are some I know who would question whether your machines are
truly ground effect vehicles. Most definitions say that ground effect
starts to have a significant effect at 1/2 wing span. Every other
definition I know says it's less than that. While your machines are
large, I doubt many of them have a 200 foot wing span, so your 100 ft
altitude would be outside ground effect for every definition I've
seen.
I know the FAA here in USA says that any vehicle which can't exceed 50
ft altitude is automatically a ground effect vehicle and therefor they
don't want to hear about them, but that doesn't preclude your machines
having that definition at least legally. I don't know if there's a
converse law which says your machines are explicitly aircraft or not,
the above rule seemed sufficient to my interests since nothing I would
make and call a WIG would go that high.
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