Give the man a Quipie Doll!!!

Both of you guys did a great job. It was actually built by the Soviets (remember them guys?) to help them "hide" their missiles. It is actually a type of "boat". And it, unofficially, holds the speed record for water operations, 350 mph! It behaves, for all practical purposes, like an airplane flying in what is called "ground affect". Anytime an airplane if within 1/2 its wingspan of the ground (water) it is in ground affect and will "float" there very economically and can actually move faster as there is less drag for it to deal with. I don't know all the physics, I just know that when I come in for landings I have to wait for the plane to settle through the ground affect. Sometimes it seems to take for ever all the while the runway slips by underneath.

But the first time I saw this contraption I thought it was some sort of steam powered airplane. I wonder where they load the coal?