Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...

If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be ...

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...

DARPA Ends Liberty Lifter Program is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network ...

The secretive Pentagon research agency says the Liberty Lifter programme has proven the viability of building an amphibian ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to resurrect a secretive Soviet design for an aircraft that skims just ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly cancelled the “Liberty Lifter” heavy cargo seaplane ...

Ambitious waterborne cargo aircraft project canceled, but its technologies will be reused in other initiatives ...

On July 7, Aviation Week’s Brian Everstine reported on DARPA’s decision to end its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale military seaplane demonstrator. Program officials touted the program’s ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, which is developing a Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Home; ...

The Liberty Lifter isn’t the only new foray into seaplanes. U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command is also working to develop a C-130 with floats to land and take off on water.

Artist concept of General Atomics bid for DARPA’s Liberty Lifter Program. This post has been updated with additional contract information. The Pentagon’s emerging technologies research arm ...