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

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

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

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

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

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...

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 ...

Bell Textron has been selected by US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of its Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane programme. The objective of Phase 2 ...

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 ...

Two European electric aviation pioneers are exploring opportunities to share testing resources and production facilities as ...

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

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday will detail the Trump administration's plans to overhaul the aging U.S.