I thought that the ground effect would keep it higher than that?

This may more evidence of close Russo-Iranian collaboration.

Russia has led the way in ground effects machines or ground effects vehicles for sixty plus years. Prototypes existed and were tested before WWII in Scandinavia. I wonder if these have the improved longitudinal stability which was a long term weakness.

The US programs were headed by a German but work is being carried out in a number of countries still.

The Russians built some huge examples. One was a 400 tonner.

See ground effect vehicle

The thing to do, really, is simply punch in the throttle and go around for another landing... If at any point you're not sure that you can make it, even if you think you probably can, it's safer to go around.

When an airplane stalls, the air flow around the wings is disrupted, and the wings stop generating lift, which is what keeps the airplane up. The point of landing is basically to stall the aircraft while you're at ground level (since you can't really point the nose down).

He was coming in way too fast, and the bottom-wing plane was getting too much lift from both the speed and the ground effect.

Check out this older sift http://www.videosift.com/video/Amazing-aerobatics-by-Russian-fighter-jet Its more than just ground effect. Ever since the SU-27, this has been an unspoken benchmark for fighter jet manouverability. Its sorta like bmx freestyle for jets.

I agree with Engels and cybrbeast... It looks like a very well calculated and practiced maneuver. Not an almost-crash.

Low flying planes experience something called the Ground Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_in_aircraft) which basically means that when an aircraft is an altitude roughly the same as it's wing-span, the lift generated by the wings is increased. It's a well known aviation effect.

Nevermind the ground effect -- perhaps this is just me, but isn't the scale of the plane completely off given the average size of those shrubs relative to the position of the shadow? Especially of the light is coming somewhere from almost directly behind it?

I could see if it were an RC version, but..

(I feel silly. I told someone off the other day for ruminating about the fakeness of a video )

The first thing that came to my mind -- where is the ground effect from a plane that size? It should kick up a serious dust cloud.

Does the plane not entirely disappear when it hits the bush?

I'd give it a 95% chance of fake.

would like to see the ground effect effects on the water

cmon benjee, make it a true witch hunt and link to my self-sifts already!

I made a wing in ground effect vid compilation from other videos, and one of some of my 3dsmax work on a car model because i thought they might be educational/interesting to those that had never looked into the fields. I really didn't deem it that important to add to the conversation but maybe you can explain to me what was so bad about both of those submissions. I actually think someone posted them for me to avoid the rule problems, which illustrates my point about the rule in question being null and void because it's so easy to bypass.

This isn't about elitism either in my humble opinion, the gold star thing, seems like a decent way to reward those that have gone out of their way for a long time to submit at least 50 other videos.

Okay I wrote a translation. Not that much new information here for me, but still for all the rest of you! I wonder if I can add this in Google Video for CC.

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It was truly a thing of wonder, still unsurpassed, surely no one in the observable future will able to construct something like the Caspian Sea Monster (KM) - The Ekranoplan, the work of the great Russian innovator Rastislav Evegniy Alexisy. Once the Caspian Sea Monster (KM) was filled with a record load of 544 tons, a record for not only for the Ekranoplan, but all flying based vehicles existing on the planet, even the famous Mira could not take such a load, yet the Caspian Sea monster did it in stormy weather!

They died together, in one year, Alexis in February 1980. The Ekranoplan a little later in latter testing stages, it sank in 20m waters. It's gigantic tail sticking from the water like a tombstone for a long time.

The Ekranoplan is basically an plane, but its massive lifting power comes from 2 technologies, the first being plane lift technology, and Ekranoplan effect (BTW in The US/UK this is called Ground Effect).

"It's incredible that this huge plane flies just a few meters off the water, using just one engine, this was done possible due to Ekrano effect where a pocket of air is created between the plane wing and the water, providing lift"

This lift support, makes the Ekranoplan a more economic plane, i.e. the weight lift capability created meant that the plane flying over water, could be up to 40% larger.

"This gave an increase speed and sea mobility regardless of wave fluctuations for the most part. This is why the air pocket planes... so called Ekranoplans were developed, however the first developments of the ekrano effect were found in early airplanes."

The Ekrano effect was noticed in the infancy of aviation, pilots first felt it when they would try to land, the effect would reduce plane control, and the higher the aerodynamic quality of the plane the less the Ekrano effect would take place. However from the point of view of the pilot and the air builder this was a negative effect, but it gained the attention of various inventors, especially those of speedboats, leading to famous developments of speedboats with under board wings which were also the design of Alexisy Evegniy.

However when these boats reached speeds of 100 to 150 KM/H, they would reach a limit of the Ekrano effect, and Rastislav decided that it was time to stop fighting against the wing and re-design it altogether and enhance the effect of Ekrano effect, to gain the most speed it would need to glide above water. And Alexis started with the largest, a real Caspian monster, the KM was 92 meters long, with a height of 22 M and a wingspan 37 M. The underside was built like a boat, though the most of the exterior looked like that of a plane.