Mad maker, Peter Sripol, apparently got a zillion requests from his viewers to build an R/C model of an Ekranoplan, aka the Caspian sea monster, a Soviet-era ground-effects vehicle (GEV), a plane designed to skim over water.

The results are amazing, the footage of it flying, of the ground-effect in action, is some of the coolest R/C footage I have ever seen. It's amazing what amateurs can do these days, cinematically, with affordable camera drones and Go Pros.

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