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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Plane can fly 180 mph only inches over the water

While browsing Google Earth last year, some users saw an interesting sight at a naval base on a Chinese shore: runways heading directly into the ocean. Scientists in Shanghai recently announced that they had indeed designed a new model of the famous but largely unknown "wing-in-ground" plane.

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