Ground Effect

Ground effect may refer to:

  • Ground effect (aircraft), mostly related to aerodynamic lift
  • Ground effect (cars), an effect that creates downforce, primarily in racing cars
  • Ground effect vehicle, a vehicle which attains level flight near the surface of the Earth due to ground effect
  • Ground effect train, an alternative to a magnetic levitation train, using ground effect in aircraft to prevent the vehicle from making contact with the ground

Famous quotes containing the words ground and/or effect:

    “The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

    “Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)