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

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

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

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

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

DARPA first worked on Liberty Lifter with General Atomics and Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, which developed their own competing designs.

DARPA first worked on Liberty Lifter with General Atomics and Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, which developed their own competing designs.