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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

DARPA’s new Liberty Lifter draws its name from the “Liberty Ships” of World War II, the cargo transports mass produced for use in the war and as merchant vessels afterwards.

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 ...

In 2022, DARPA announced its project to develop an aircraft, called the Liberty Lifter, with the size and capacity of a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, yet could lift over 100 tonnes of ...

The Liberty Lifter program, named for the Liberty supply ships of World War II, would fulfill a similar mission by carrying troops, equipment and supplies to distant shores.