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

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 ...

DARPA Ends Liberty Lifter Program is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network ...

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 ...

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

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

While the project won’t move forward, DARPA said the Liberty Lifter research generated valuable insights that could inform future efforts.

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

On July 7, Aviation Week’s Brian Everstine reported on DARPA’s decision to end its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale military seaplane demonstrator. Program officials touted the program’s ...

CHILLING pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time. And the ...