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🛫 Wing in Ground Effect Lab: Ekranoplan Height, Induced Drag and Heave Stability - 2D Side and Front View

2D wing-in-ground-effect lab: set mass, span, chord, speed and incidence and watch lift, induced drag, power and heave stability change with height above the sea.

Aerospace Engineering & Orbital Mechanics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

Fly a wing-in-ground-effect craft just above the waves: the image-vortex ground effect cuts induced drag by up to ~70 %, raises lift-to-drag at low h/b and makes height self-stabilising.

Ground effectInduced dragLifting lineEkranoplanHeave stability

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install