South Korea's maritime agency first to certify an aircraft optimised for surface-effect operation but capable of free flight, beside trolling around on the sea. All you could hope for, a boat with a sort of car on top and wings on either side (though not fitted yet as it appears here).
That nice man Paul Dutch with his ground-effect channel attributes a revival of wing in ground-effect types (WIGs) to Regent kick-starting the process in the US with an electrified passenger type (the type and not its passengers) beside military demand in and around the South China Sea for rapid, inexpensive and low-observable forms of aircraft or watercraft.
To the extent special forces specialists Patriot3 in the US have co-opted a licence for use of the Aron-80 elsewhere in the world.
The initiative grew out of government research of a sort that Japan's MITI is known for in an effort to grow consumer electronics, or indeed China for its domination of the global EV market.
There's nothing comparable in the UK, which is why I'll be in the conservatory later with a tool-box instead.
