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

The “Liberty Lifter” fits neatly into the operational concepts sculpting how US joint forces intend to compete and win in the Western Pacific.

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

DARPA Ends Liberty Lifter Program is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network ...

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...

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

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 ...

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