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From: jeff@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (JEFF NANIS )
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Soviet Wing-in-Ground Effect Machine?
Summary: Open source bibliography
Keywords: Wing in Ground Effect Machine, Orlan, Soviet
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Date: 23 Jul 90 20:34:42 GMT
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From: jeff@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (JEFF NANIS )
>From: bash@ihlpb.att.com (Thomas W Basham)
>>From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher)
>> Does anyone who reads sci.military know anything more about "Orlan",
>>or even if it actually exists?

>I've read [brief] references to it in several places, such as Aviation
>Week.  I think there was something about it in Jane's Soviet Intelligence
>Review, but I'm not sure.

	Well, campers, here goes with a relatively complete OPEN-SOURCE
bibliography for Wing-In-Ground Effect (WIG) vehicles.

	First of all, check out the 1982-1986 Janes' Sea Skimmers books
in your nearby well-stocked library. There are descriptions of WIGs (not
just Soviet, either) in the Surface Effect sections. One of the years has
an article by Stephan Hooker called "Wingships: A Prospect for High-Speed
Ocean Transport". I can't remember what year it's from. The June 1987 issue
of Defense Electronics has an article entitled "Soviet Surface Effect 
Vehicles May Challenge Western Forces" on pp. 133-148. A literature search
through NTIS and DTIC came up with several WIG-related reports. The fol-
lowing represent some of the more applicable documents:

	AIAA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4, April 1988, "Slender Wing in 
		Ground Effect", A. Plotkin and S.S. Dodbele
	AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 25, N0. 4, April 1988, "Stability
		of Airplanes in Ground Effect", R.W. Staufenbiel and
		U.-J. Schlichting
	David Taylor Research Center Report ASED-380, March 1977, 
		"Effect of Configuration on the Measured Performance of
		a Power Augmented Wing in Ground Efect", George H. 
		Kidwell, Jr. and Roger W. Gallington
	USAF Foreign Technology Division Translation FTD-MT-24-2792-74,
		20 November 1974, "Criteria of the Longitudinal
		Stability of the Ekranoplan", R.D. Irodov
	AIAA Report 89-1497-CP, "A Review of Current Technical Knowledge
		Necessary to Develop Large Scale Wing-In-Surface Effect
		Craft", Stephan Hooker
	
	These documents should provide a thorough understanding of
the mechanism for the wing-in-ground effect as well as an unclassified
survey of Soviet developments in the area. I'd tell you more, but then...
well, you know my .sig. As Mary mentioned, once you have access to this
stuff from certain sources, your knowledge base becomes "tainted" and
it becomes very difficult to differentiate between stuff you read open-
source and stuff obtained through other "sources and methods".
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Jeff Nanis			"If I told you,	I'd have to kill you."	

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