Aurora Flight Sciences has released a new video of its revolutionary wing-in-ground-effect Liberty Lifter concept aircraft that it's developing for DARPA. The aircraft uses ground effect to lift heavy ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...

Aerodynamics in ground effect vehicles has become a focal point for contemporary research due to its substantial potential to enhance lift, reduce drag and improve overall vehicle performance. This ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, recently picked two companies to design and build prototypes of the Liberty Lifter, a wing-in-ground-effect transport aircraft: General ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on 1 February selected two companies to design wing-in-ground effect (WIG) concepts for Phase 1 of the Liberty Lifter programme. The 18-month ...

The Wing Ship Technology Corporation, a South Korean company, is trying to revive the wing in ground effect idea. South Korea’s armed forces have already agreed to buy some and the firm says it hopes ...

All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an ...

The US military in the midst of a Pacific boom, as America’s military and political leaders focus increasingly on countering a rising China in the Indo-Pacific region. That means projecting power ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting designs for an aircraft that will provide the U.S. military with fast, flexible, and survivable strategic lift capability that is ...

The US military is exploring the potential of an experimental amphibian wing-in-ground-effect vehicle to improve logistics in maritime environments. The US Marine Corps (USMC) is contracting with ...

ST Engineering’s joint venture company with Peluca (formerly known as Wigetworks), ST Engineering AirX (AirX), will collaborate with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in the trials of ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. After reading our recent post "Hydrogen-Fueled Planes Could ...