Why aren’t we using ground-effect airplanes in Ocean travel

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If ground effect are so much more efficient why aren’t we using them for flights, from Europe to the US for example?

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Because if there’s a wave, the plane hits the water.

At plane speeds that’s just as bad as crashing into the ground.

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