Regent Craft Wing in Ground Effect Could Revive Giant Cargo Plane Dreams
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6Z8P2)
DARPA and the Navy had envisioned hyper-efficient cargo planes able to move thousands of tons by leveraging extra lift by flying close to the ground. Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do ...