What is ground effect, in aviation? - Quora

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Answer (1 of 5): Tim Morgan offered a very good explanation (as usual) mostly centred on aeroplanes, and obviously the Wikipedia article also quoted is helpful. To that, I'd like to add a quote from one of Tim Hibbetts' brilliant answers that, incidentally, he'd posted just moments after I got th

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Some aircraft have their wings drooping down with a negative dihedral. Why is that not unstable? Examples are the C-5 transport and the BAE RJ 146. - Quora

What is ground effect, in aviation? - Quora

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Why we do not use ground effect planes for transoceanic lines? It seems they would combine the speed of a plane with the capacity of a ship (up to 3000 people), have