Ground Effect Aircraft
Further information: Ground effect vehicleMany vehicles have a design that makes use of the wing in ground effect. Although all airplanes fly through ground effect at some point, craft that do so in a dedicated manner are designed in such a way that their wings are normally unable to take them into flight out of ground effect (free flight). Those that can fly out of ground effect are often only capable of short distance hops into free flight. Because of this, these craft are often licenced as ships rather than as aircraft. These specially designed craft may use delta wings, ekranoplan wings or tandem wings.
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