Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...

Making sure the world is at peace and more or less free is not an easy task. For the countries that took this mission upon themselves, that means not only constantly being on the lookout for dangers ...

In September last year autoevolution ran a story claiming that 'America Will Soon Deliver Freedom by Force With Stunning Ground-Effect Seaplane.' The story focused on a Defense Advanced Research ...

The Liberty Lifter revives and upgrades the ekranoplan idea with a new twist: the ability to fly efficiently over both sea and land. Its single-hull flying boat design with high wings and a forked ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed new design details of a wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft with a C-130-sized payload that is competing for a DARPA contract to build a demonstrator. The Boeing ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has released a new video of its revolutionary wing-in-ground-effect Liberty Lifter concept aircraft that it's developing for DARPA. The aircraft uses ground effect to lift heavy ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has ended its experiment to create a heavy cargo seaplane. The nearly three-year-old Liberty Lifter program was intended to design and build - and ...

Artist's concept of Liberty Lifter. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences can start buying long-lead components for a Boeing C-17-sized, experimental seaplane, moving the Liberty ...

Aurora Flight Sciences tweaked its original Liberty Lifter design to move floats to its wingtips and adjust its tail to better accommodate its aft cargo door. (Aurora Flight Sciences) The Defense ...