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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

DARPA said it restructured the Liberty Lifter program in late 2023 to pull forward technical risk reduction activities. In early 2024, DARPA announced it had dropped General Atomics from the ...