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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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

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 ...