DARPA has chosen two radically different designs from teams led by General Atomics and Aurora Flight Systems for development of the Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale seaborne ...

It’s hard to believe that in five years we haven’t covered lifters before. This realization was sparked when [Tyler] tipped us off about a lifter project demonstrated at the Kansas City hackerspace ...

US military scientists have water on the brain. Specifically, landing a large cargo transport aircraft in an aquatic environment. On 18 May, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ...

The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) recently selected two teams to create designs for its Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator, as per a press ...

The Pentagon’s secretive technology development arm has allocated an additional $40 million to fund continued work on a heavy-lift seaplane demonstrator competition involving General Atomics ...

Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ground effect seaplane program. First reported by Aviation Week on Jul. 7, ...

DARPA has launched the Liberty Lifter project to demonstrate a leap in operational logistics capabilities by designing, building, and flying a long-range, low-cost X-plane capable of seaborne ...