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

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

Bell Textron has been selected by US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of its Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane programme. The objective of Phase 2 ...

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

"EQUIP-A-Pharma is about point-of-need manufacturing—hospitals, military bases, disaster zones—ensuring rapid drug ...

DARPA named Bell Textron to proceed with the next phase of its SPRINT X-Plane project, to design and build an aircraft that ...

The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...

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

Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.

A mysterious blob sits on a lab table in Tulane University’s Stern Hall. It’s slimy, squishy and a little bigger than a ...