DARPA has chosen two radically different designs from teams led by General Atomics and Aurora Flight Systems for development of the Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale seaborne ...

US military scientists have water on the brain. Specifically, landing a large cargo transport aircraft in an aquatic environment. On 18 May, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ...

DARPA has launched the Liberty Lifter project to demonstrate a leap in operational logistics capabilities by designing, building, and flying a long-range, low-cost X-plane capable of seaborne ...

The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) recently selected two teams to create designs for its Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator, as per a press ...

Both participants in a Pentagon X-plane project to develop a heavy-lift seaplane are advancing toward the build stage of the effort. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Aurora Flight Sciences on ...