Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift

Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by LunarCamper on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:51AM (#31549578)

So the Caspian sea monster, but make it American by adding words like "liberty" and "freedom" to the name? Got it.

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by renewiltord on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:55AM (#31549612)

Considering they mentioned the ekranoplans in the linked article this seems like just a low quality regurgitation.

American naming schemes tend to be like this. It's just branding.

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by rst on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:16AM (#31549778)

The depicted images didn't show a ground-effect vehicle, which seems odd -- it fits the job and is much more economical than the winged plane shown.

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by jhgb on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:34AM (#31549955)

There's the mention of "sustained flight at mid-altitudes". Perhaps the intention is for this to be able to fly over land as well? Maybe by sacrificing some cargo capacity in mid-altitude flights?

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by CoastalCoder on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:15AM (#31549773)

I wasn't aware of that pattern.

Can you give some examples of Americans doing this more than other peoples?

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by jitl on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:16PM (#31550809)

> doing this more than other peoples

I don’t think a pattern needs to be exceptional to be notable.

The first example that comes to mind is Freedom Fries (lol) https://www.google.com/search?q=freedom+fries&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT...

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Re:Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift by Gimpei on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:55AM (#31549617)

Spruce Goose 2?

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