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- noun aviation, nautical a
ground-effect vehicle
Etymologies
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The aircraft at 7: 35 is the Lun ekranoplan, which is based on the
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The aircraft at 7: 35 is the Lun ekranoplan, which is based on the KM 'Caspian Sea Monster', but smaller.
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The aircraft at 7: 35 is the Lun ekranoplan, which is based on the KM
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Get that book just for the pleasure of reading how the first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin sets to explore the infinite ocean (every planet in the Universe turned flat, you see) inside a giant "ekranoplan" ground-effect vehicle. (a larger version of this) review: 15-Jan-08 (read in 2007)
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Choppers start off as improbable objects – add in that Russian air thing think ekranoplan and you get:
Mr. Big Stuff 2007
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Choppers start off as improbable objects – add in that Russian air thing think ekranoplan and you get:
Happy Halloween… 2007
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The aircraft at 1: 23 is the Orlyonok ekranoplan, which as of October 2007 is in the process of being restored for an upcoming Russian aircraft exhibition in Moscow.
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From the wikipedia article: An ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н, literally "screen plane") is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but which operates solely on the principle of ground effect (in Russian эффект экрана effekt ekrana - from which the name derived).
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From the wikipedia article: An ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н, literally "screen plane") is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but which operates solely on the principle of ground effect (in Russian эффект экрана effekt ekrana - from which the name derived).
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From the wikipedia article: An ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н, literally "screen plane") is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but which operates solely on the principle of ground effect (in Russian эффект экрана effekt ekrana - from which the name derived).
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