First Take, Sept. 30, 2024

Aurora Flight Sciences seaplane concept
Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences
DEFENSE Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled the design with which it is competing to build DARPA’s Liberty Lifter X-plane, a 213-ft.-span, 50,000-lb.-payload wing-in-ground-effect seaplane. Boeing is designing a larger, land-based version of its MQ-25 uncrewed tanker, targeting future U.S...
Graham Warwick

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