Kaspian Sea Monster And Ground Effect Vehicles

[Renkov]

Hi everyone,

Forum newbie here so please pardon my formatting, et al

There's a ( I think ) neat craft called the Kaspian Monster. Something the Soviets developed but never really took off. ( No pun intended) It's a big plane, and the whole class of planes it falls into would seem unable to fly, and to an extent they can't. But they are able to move fast enough that the air beneath them can't get out of the way because they fly so close to the ground. This is known as "The Ground Effect" It's that cushion you feel when an airplane comes in for a landing just before the wheels hit.

Does anyone know if this effect is currently modeled? Or will it be in 1.0, or FAR? And if this thread's been covered already, my apologies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster

Edited April 13, 2015 by Renkov
Answered

[TheXRuler]

First of all, welcome to the forums.

Second your information on the Kaspian Sea Monster is thus far correct (according to my knowledge). I find it to be a very impressive vehicle

Thirdly, this effect is definetly not modeled in stock KSP. And as far as I know neither KSP 1.0, nor FAR/NEAR cover this either.

[el_coyoto]

Welcome to the forums Renkov!

KSP doesn't model ground effect, which is a bit sad because I've always been impressed by ekranoplans and would love to build them in KSP...

Source : this thread

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edit : ninja'd by TheXRuler

Edited April 13, 2015 by el_coyoto
a ninja knows no fear

[TheXRuler]

Still nice to have my statements backed up by some good sources

[kerbiloid]

Two years ago somebody has created a set of KSP ekranoplan replicas, but without any ground effect, of course - just crafts.

You can see their movies on youtube googling "kerbal ekranoplan".

Alas, they were published on kerbalspaceport.

[Van Disaster]

FAR does not currently model ground effect. It did briefly, iirc and then it got removed for some reason ( I think the "nobody really noticed" reason ).