Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and ...

The Soviets went big, culminating in the vast KM, a prototypical ten-engined, 500-plus tonne craft that was dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster. That crashed in 1980 but inspired the Lun-class ekranoplan.