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  1. DARPA taps Aurora to keep designing heavy cargo …

    May 10, 2024 · Aurora Flight Sciences will continue designing an experimental heavy cargo seaplane for the U.S. military, which has now officially dropped …

  2. The Pentagon is developing a seaplane with the cargo …

    Feb 3, 2023 · The Pentagon wants to develop a giant seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17. The Liberty Lifter is bringing back the flying boat. By Max Hauptman. Posted on Feb 3, 2023 10:26 AM EST.

  3. Liberty Lifter: Transforming Fast Logistics at Sea

  4. Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue Design Liberty Lifter …

    May 14, 2024 · Aurora’s design is closer to a traditional large seaplane or a flying boat aircraft, having a single hull, high-wing configuration, powered by eight turboprop engines.

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  6. DARPA Developing Wing-In-Ground Effect Cargo …

    Feb 16, 2023 · The aircraft is depicted with a lifting nose section, similarly to the C-5 Galaxy, and a ramp to quickly unload the cargo. The design proposed by General Atomics for the Liberty Lifter program ...

  7. DARPA's ground-effect X-plane will haul 100 tons of …

    Feb 2, 2024 · Since 2022, DARPA has been developing the Liberty Lifter, which is a project to develop a relatively inexpensive seaplane that has the cargo volume of a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft ...

  8. This new seaplane will transform heavy-lift transport

    Feb 4, 2024 · This Boeing company’s seaplane will transform heavy-lift transport. The Liberty Lifter will have the cargo volume of a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, yet carry up to 100 tons of cargo.

  9. DARPA wants a heavy cargo plane that can land at sea

    Feb 2, 2023 · DARPA wants this aircraft to be a long-range, low-cost aircraft around the same size and capacity as the C-17 Globemaster, which can carry more than 170,000 pounds of cargo, including a 69-ton M1 ...

  10. Video: DARPA Unveils Liberty Lifter Seaplane Concept

    May 19, 2022 · The new vehicle concept seeks to expand upon existing cargo aircraft by proving revolutionary heavy air lift abilities from the sea. The envisioned plane will combine fast and flexible strategic lift of very large, …