DARPA taps teams led by General Atomics, Aurora Flight Sciences for ‘Liberty Lifter’ program

DARPA taps teams led by General Atomics, Aurora Flight Sciences for ‘Liberty Lifter’ program
DARPA taps teams led by General Atomics, Aurora Flight Sciences for ‘Liberty Lifter’ program

The program seeks to revolutionize how the Pentagon approaches both sealift and airlift, using a trick of physics in low-altitude flight.

DARPA taps General Atomics for low-flying seaplane Liberty Lifter concept

DARPA taps General Atomics for low-flying seaplane Liberty Lifter concept
DARPA taps General Atomics for low-flying seaplane Liberty Lifter concept

The Liberty Lifter program aims to change how the Pentagon tackles air and sealift through a well-known, but difficult-to-use physics trick.

DARPA’s revolutionary seaplane wants to change how the Pentagon hauls cargo

DARPA’s revolutionary seaplane wants to change how the Pentagon hauls cargo
DARPA’s revolutionary seaplane wants to change how the Pentagon hauls cargo

For it’s Liberty Lifter project, the research agency is betting on a concept called the “wing-in-ground effect,” an aerodynamic principle that’s well-known but proven difficult to master, a DARPA official told Breaking Defense.