Aurora Flight Sciences, one of two teams vying to design and build a military seaplane with heavy-air-lift capability, has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter design.

The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...

American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.

Aurora Flight Sciences' X-plane work isn't limited to the X-65, the demonstrator aircraft that could change aviation as we know it.In another DARPA partnership, the Boeing subsidiary's Liberty ...

Aurora Flight Sciences (Bridgeport, W.Va.), a Boeing Company, recently completed conceptual design review for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) high-speed, vertical lift X-plane, ...

COLUMBUS – In its third expansion since opening in 2005, Aurora Flight Sciences is investing in a $43.8 million project that will create 63 new jobs. The company plans to fill the jobs by the ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed its latest concept for a low-drag, fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a ...

Loughborough – Intelligent Energy (IE) is delighted to collaborate with Aurora Flight Sciences to help power the next generation of Aurora uncrewed aircraft systems through the use of fuel cell ...

AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES (Boeing) completed conceptual design review for vertical lift X-plane to be developed under DARPA's SPRINT program; concept is low-drag, fan-in-wing demonstrator that ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuous Composites (CCI), a leader in advanced composite manufacturing, has been awarded a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR ...

Military Bits & Pieces • Aurora Flight Sciences. Military Drone Named After Greek Wind Gets More Flight Time and a Nose Job. Published: 7 May 2025, 12:01 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu.