Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift

Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:12AM (#31549279)

I sincerely wish them luck with that. It would definitely be cool, if they could get it to work, but this part:

> highly controlled flight close to turbulent water surfaces

Has been a "heavy lift" for ekranoplan designers for decades.

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by bell-cot on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:58AM (#31549636)

Yep. I've never heard "batting average" figures for DARPA, but they are the government's "pie in the sky" long-shot research folks.

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:04PM (#31550209)

I've always enjoyed The Register's view on DARPA. They treat them as if they were Frankenstein's Playpen.

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