Aurora Flight Sciences, one of two teams vying to design and build a military seaplane with heavy-air-lift capability, has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter design. The decision was ...

The video shows how Liberty Lifter can combine heavy-lift transport at the scale of a ship with the speed of an aircraft for fast logistics missions in a sea environment. Aurora Flight Sciences, which ...

It’s a boat. It’s a plane. It’s both. The Liberty Lifter X-plane is a concept for a ground effect vehicle for “seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift” according to the Defense Advanced Research ...

If Aurora’s concept passes the Preliminary Design Review by 2025, it will be expected to float, fly and then demonstrate the Liberty Lifter by late-2027 or early 2028. Following General Atomics’ exit ...

DARPA on May 18 released a rendering for a proposed wing-in-ground-effect sealifter scheduled to fly by the end of fiscal 2027. The notional concept for the Liberty Lifter program shows a ...

Development of the Liberty Lifter just got more interesting. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) named two teams that will work on different designs for a large transport ...

Both participants in a Pentagon X-plane project to develop a heavy-lift seaplane are advancing toward the build stage of the effort. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Aurora Flight Sciences on ...

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 ...

Only one company now remains in the US military’s effort to develop a heavy-lift transport aircraft capable of taking off from and landing on water. Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is now the ...

NASA Chief Technologist Robert Braun tells the Orlando Sentinel that the space agency will determine the design specifications of a new heavy-lift rocket it has been directed to build in legislation ...