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