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WIG, I heard that there is a Ferry service being run in Alaska using a WIG type aircraft, anyone heard of this

Question by gregva2001: WIG, I heard that there is a Ferry service being run in Alaska using a WIG type aircraft, anyone heard of this
I know that Beriev in the former USSR had built and tested several wing in ground effect sea-plane type aircraft for the military, one destroyed in an accident, the other moth-balled. Would a large transport type WIG aircaft be able to go across the Atlantic and/or pacific? or even for work on inland lakes, rivers etc.

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Answer by hazbob43
I live in alaska let me check in to this I think I know what you talking about

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