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To communicate with the Crimea is proposed to create a fleet of WIG (Return of the Ekranoplane!)
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| 8-7-2014
| tvzvezda
Posted on 08/07/2014 8:53:12 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: wetphoenix
“On the other hand I really doubt if they are able to negotiate bad weather”
Probably not. But they can sit until the squall is gone, then fly the route and still arrive faster than the ship that chugged along thru the storm. For inland seas, these things are pretty good on fast freight.
A ship defeats them on tonnage it can carry. People never really appreciate how small airlift actually is alongside sealift.
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08/07/2014 10:50:30 PM PDT
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DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: tcrlaf
The Beriev A-42PE Albatros is a WOFG (Wing out of Ground Effect
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08/08/2014 6:59:06 PM PDT
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Oztrich Boy
(Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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