A Japanese concept of ekranoplan or WIG ship. It is a canard wing configuration of wing in surface effect ship (WISES). The video shows a figure eight flight of a radio controlled model.The size of the model is 7.2m in length. Usually remote operation of a flying model is not easy. However, our ship shows smooth take off, stable circular flight and soft alighting on water. The future application will be 400km/h speed marine transportation.

Details are in the journal article, "Wing in surface effect ship with canard configuration",
http://inderscience.metapress.com/con...

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