Oh the irony. This is the Pelican program restart. Circa 2005. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Peli

Oh the irony. This is the Pelican program restart. Circa 2005. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican Pelican was a ground-effect heavy lift aircraft, too. DARPA refused to fund any Pelican developmental work 20 years ago because the “Technology has been demonstrated already” (by the Russians). I had the privilege of working for the people who did the concept of operations work.