Comment on The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (2011)parentComments−teeja13yChallenge accepted: I wasn't able to tease out a number more specific than "up to twice as efficient" herehttp://jalopnik.com/5490236/the-nuclear-warhead+equipped-ekr...but it might be decipherable in this PDF:http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/pubfulltext/rto/mp/rto-mp-015...A couple of sources said such a plane can fly up to a few hundred feet up. And another talked about a yacht using WIG:http://www.yachtboutique.com/Designers/Ekranoplan/Ekranoplan...
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Challenge accepted: I wasn't able to tease out a number more specific than "up to twice as efficient" here
http://jalopnik.com/5490236/the-nuclear-warhead+equipped-ekr...
but it might be decipherable in this PDF:
http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/pubfulltext/rto/mp/rto-mp-015...
A couple of sources said such a plane can fly up to a few hundred feet up. And another talked about a yacht using WIG:
http://www.yachtboutique.com/Designers/Ekranoplan/Ekranoplan...