Duck! It's A Low-Flying Gigaplane
from the but-can-you-fish-from-it? dept
It seems that Boeing is working on a project to build the world’s largest plane with a wing span of almost 600 feet. That’s not the most interesting part, though. The plane is being designed to fly over water at a constant altitude of 20 feet. Not 20,000, but 20. Two-zero. Apparently, it will make use of the “ground effect” that is caused by a low flying plane creating pressure which helps to push the plane, decreasing the drag, and giving it much better mileage.