Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...

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

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 ...

Chilling pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time.

On July 7, Aviation Week’s Brian Everstine reported on DARPA’s decision to end its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale military seaplane demonstrator. Program officials touted the program’s ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

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

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 ...

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

Images on social media reveal that China has built its own flying ship, dubbed the ‘Bohai Sea Monster’. This wing-in-ground effect (WIG) craft, commonly known as an ekranoplan, was first seen during t ...