Aurora Flight Sciences altered its Liberty Lifter design from a T-tail design to a Pi-tail—a feature it called ‘more structurally efficient.’ [Courtesy: Aurora Flight Sciences]
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Aurora Flight Sciences has significantly reconfigured its Liberty Lifter military seaplane design, changing the tail from a T-tail to a Pi-tail and relocating floats to the wingtips.
These design modifications, spurred by preliminary testing and collaboration with maritime experts, aim to improve structural efficiency, accommodate an aft cargo door, and balance performance with affordability.
The company is actively conducting risk-reduction tests, including full-scale structural article builds and hull slamming studies, as the program progresses towards DARPA's preliminary design review in early 2025.
Aurora Flight Sciences, one of two teams vying to design and build a military seaplane with heavy-air-lift capability, has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter design.
The decision was spurred by results from preliminary testing, according to the company.
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