Hidden in a Moscow air museum, the Soviet VVA-14 is one of the weirdest aircraft ever built! Designed to hover, take off ...

Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned a colossal Ekranoplan that could travel over the ocean at 600 km/h while carrying fighter jets. This ground-effect aircraft would operate just meters above ...

In the 1960s the Soviet Union began experimenting with what they called ekranoplans, ground effect vehicles (GEVs ... and more fuel efficient than an aircraft of similar size.