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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Development of the Liberty Lifter just got more interesting. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) named two teams that will work on different designs for a large ...

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 ...

DARPA hopes to begin the next phase of the programme in mid-2024, which will include detailed design, manufacturing and flight demonstration of full-scale Liberty Lifter craft.

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 Military Aviation ...