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Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a ...
Harvard and the U.S. government have different stories with respect to whether a grant with research vital to national ...
American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.
Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...
The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...
Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...
Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off and land in rough seas.
If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly cancelled the “Liberty Lifter” heavy cargo seaplane ...
Here's why Harvard is calling out the U.S. government in court for continuing to pay a grant to them that it previously ...
A mysterious blob sits on a lab table in Tulane University’s Stern Hall. It’s slimy, squishy and a little bigger than a ...