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 ...

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 ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Chinese ambitions in the South and East China seas, as well as Taiwan, make development of craft like this ekranoplan and the ...

The Liberty Lifter isn’t the only new foray into seaplanes. U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command is also working to develop a C-130 with floats to land and take off on water.

Aurora Flight Sciences, which is developing a Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Home; ...