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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Development of the Liberty Lifter just got more interesting. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) named two teams that will work on different designs for a large ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $7,967,144 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, excluding unexercised options, for the Liberty Lifter program. Work will be ...