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ground effect machine

n. (alternative form of ground-effect machine English)

Usage examples of "ground effect machine".

A driver was hunched over the control yoke, and as soon as the door spun shut he gunned the vehicle forward with a weaving movement that told Hamid-Jones he was in a ground effect machine, one whose compressors and fans were powerful enough to lift it from zero and set it going in seconds.

Our problem is no longer the innovation, but the chain of innovations, not the supersonic transport, or the breeder reactor, or the ground effect machine, but entire inter-linked sequences of such innovations and the novelty they send flooding into the society.

Beyond was the roadway where the crew had just finished stowing the three foam crates in a large ground effect machine.