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 ...

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

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 ...

DARPA has launched a new "Liberty Lifter" program to design, build and test a highly-efficient wing-in-ground effect aircraft for transporting "very large, heavy loads" over long distances without ...

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 ...

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.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $7,967,144 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, excluding unexercised options, for the Liberty Lifter program. Work will be ...