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

American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.

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 ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...

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

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Enter DARPA’s Liberty Lifter. This project aims to create a vehicle that can operate in high sea states and open ocean conditions while significantly reducing the cost associated with ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA said it restructured the Liberty Lifter program in late 2023 to pull forward technical risk reduction activities. In early 2024, DARPA announced it had dropped General Atomics from the ...