The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the secretive group behind some of the United States’ most radical and advanced defense projects, wants to “revolutionize” heavy air life with a large, ...

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 ...

DARPA has launched a new "Liberty Lifter" program to design, build and test a highly-efficient wing-in-ground effect aircraft for transporting "very large, heavy loads" over long distances without ...

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 ...

Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do not need as much weight as ...

The ground-effect (GE) refers to the almost mystical property where the interaction of the airflow around an aircraft’s wing and the ground massively increases efficiency due to the reduction of ...

The U.S. Army will start executing within a month a fielding plan for acquiring and delivering Launched Effects-Short Range (LE-SR) air vehicles to every division by the end of next year, a senior ...

The new X-plane will be a large flying boat similar in size and capacity to the C-17. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on a new X-plane under the Liberty Lifter Seaplane ...

All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an ...