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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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The Liberty Lifter project represents a bold step into the future of maritime transportation, promising to revolutionize how the US Navy and Marines approach rapid ocean transport.

The Liberty Lifter revives and upgrades the ekranoplan idea with a new twist: the ability to fly efficiently over both sea and land. Its single-hull flying boat design with high wings and a forked ...

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