American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...

CHILLING pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time. And the wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft, commonly known as an ...

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 skims 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.

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 ...