Скачать или смотреть DARPA is creating twin-fuselage aircraft with the C17's size carrying capacity.

DARPA is creating twin-fuselage aircraft with the C17's size carrying capacity.

Darpa is involved in the development of a new form of seaplane that will have two cockpits and a huge span of wings and be able to transport significant quantities of supplies and personnel for a military base.

The concept video of the planning, which Darpa has produced, is a major development with numerous benefits for naval operations. The airplane will be propelled by a turboprop engine and will carry the cargo out of its nose door.

The planned Liberty Lifter demonstrator will be a large flying boat similar in size and capacity to the #C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft. Goals include takeoff and land in Sea State 4, sustained on-water operation up to Sea State 5, and extended flight close to the water in ground effect with the capability to fly out of ground effect at altitudes up to 10,000 feet above sea level.

Two teams -- General Atomics working with Maritime Applied Physics Corporation and Aurora Flight Sciences working with Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft -- will develop designs for #DARPA’s Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator. The Liberty Lifter program aims to demonstrate a leap ahead in operational capability by designing, building, floating, and flying a long-range, low-cost X-Plane capable of a seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift.