The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen two teams to develop designs for DARPA’s Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator.
It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s… DARPA’s new wing-in-ground-effect aircraft, and it’s heading into the design phase with two companies. Here are their designs.
The Pentagon’s emerging technologies research arm awarded two aviation companies contracts to develop seaplanes that would fly less than 100 feet off the ground and carry 90 tons of cargo more than 6,500 nautical miles, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday. General Atomics, working with Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, and Aurora Flight Sciences, working with […]
“I’m going to vote for it, or commit suicide,” said District 17 Sen. Chuck Younger, referencing the largest economic development deal in the state’s history. That deal an aluminum mill going onto Steel Dynamics’ campus off of Airport Road represents a $2.5 billion investment by the company and a huge infusion of jobs.