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

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

Bell is allowed to develop a demonstrator for a fast tiltrotor aircraft as part of the Pentagon's SPRINT-X-Planes program.

Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...

The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...

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

The SPRINT project is a joint DARPA/ US Special Operations Command effort that aims to fly an X-plane. The program had entered phase one in November 2023, and in May 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences and ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, one of two teams vying to design and build a military seaplane with heavy-air-lift capability, has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter design.

Aurora Flight Sciences (Bridgeport, W.Va.), a Boeing Company, recently completed conceptual design review for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) high-speed, vertical lift X-plane, ...

COLUMBUS – In its third expansion since opening in 2005, Aurora Flight Sciences is investing in a $43.8 million project that will create 63 new jobs. The company plans to fill the jobs by the ...

Loughborough – Intelligent Energy (IE) is delighted to collaborate with Aurora Flight Sciences to help power the next generation of Aurora uncrewed aircraft systems through the use of fuel cell ...

AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES (Boeing) completed conceptual design review for vertical lift X-plane to be developed under DARPA's SPRINT program; concept is low-drag, fan-in-wing demonstrator that ...