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DARPA Chooses GA And Aurora Flight Sciences To Design Liberty Lifter Seaplane

DARPA Chooses GA And Aurora Flight Sciences To Design Liberty Lifter Seaplane
Artist impression of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems concept for the DARPA Liberty Lifter seaplane program. (Image: General Atomics via DARPA)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected teams led by General Atomics and Boeing’s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences to develop designs for the Liberty Lifter Seaplane full-scale demonstrator, the agency said Wednesday. This program seeks to demonstrate an improvement in operational capability by designing, building, floating and flying a long-range, low-cost X-Plane capable of strategic and tactical heavy lift. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) is set to work with the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation while Aurora will work with…

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