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A flying hovercraft and ground effect vehicle design. The flat double-wing design for small, medium, and large cargo or military transport vehicles allows travel from very slow to medium to high speeds over water or land. The highly elongated, flat wing of very low aspect ratio provides a vehicle th

A flying hovercraft and ground effect vehicle design. The flat double-wing design for small, medium, and large cargo or military transport vehicles allows travel from very slow to medium to high speeds over water or land. The highly elongated, flat wing of very low aspect ratio provides a vehicle that is capable of traveling in ground effect flight at a safe distance above the water. Primarily a high-speed (150-200 kts), over-water, ground-effect, vehicle that is augmented with hovercraft capabilities for acceleration to flight speed, deceleration, and slow to moderate speed (0-75 kts.) operations. The vehicle design is adaptable from one-man units to large, ocean-going high-speed cargo ships of 400 feet and over, with carrying capacities over five million pounds. A vehicle of this design is 250% more efficient than modern aircraft, 15 times faster than cargo ships, and capable of going into true flight to overfly land masses for ocean-to-ocean and inland lake or river access. The design can be adapted to a multitude of fast, military, over-water vehicles of any size capable of travel over any terrain.

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An improved air flight vehicle for operation over bodies of water and land and capable of being in hovercraft or ground effect modes of operation comprising: a) a cargo hull having bow and stern and a wing system attached to said hull, said wing system being a flat-wing, double-wing system with said

An improved air flight vehicle for operation over bodies of water and land and capable of being in hovercraft or ground effect modes of operation comprising: a) a cargo hull having bow and stern and a wing system attached to said hull, said wing system being a flat-wing, double-wing system with said flat wings having an aspect ratio of about 0.25 to 0.50, b) where the center of gravity of the vehicle is at about the center of the cargo hull and the center of lift of the vehicle is at about the center of the cargo hull; c) where the wing span of said vehicle is about 0.5-1.0 times that of the hull length; d) said vehicle having air-cushion generation means capable of generating a cushion of air underneath said cargo hull; e) said vehicle having ground effect movement means capable of propelling said vehicle in ground effect flight.