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

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

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

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly cancelled the “Liberty Lifter” heavy cargo seaplane ...

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 ...

Aurora Flight Sciences' Fan-in-Wing technology development progresses: flight testing of the final design is targeted for 2027. Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, has just unveiled ...

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 ...

Aurora Flight Sciences' X-plane work isn't limited to the X-65, the demonstrator aircraft that could change aviation as we know it. In another DARPA partnership, the Boeing subsidiary's Liberty ...

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.

COLUMBUS – In its third expansion since opening in 2005, Aurora Flight Sciences is investing in a $43.8 million project that will create 63 new jobs. The company plans to fill the jobs by the ...

DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences have begun building the first full-scale X-65 aircraft to demonstrate a new method of flight control that uses no external moving parts.