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Title    Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire
Date    Friday July 20 2018, @11:41AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the maybe-he-is-just-up-in-the-air-about-them dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/19/238205

Phoenix666 writes:

The Verge:

One flying car seems absurd; Larry Page has three.

He started with Cora, a two-seater flying taxi, then added a sporty flying boat called Flyer, both developed by a company called Kitty Hawk. And last week, The Verge discovered a third: Opener, which just came out of stealth mode. There was no mention of the Google co-founder in the startup’s announcement, but when confronted with evidence of Page’s involvement, Opener quickly issued a press release admitting it.

Flying cars (more formally known as eVTOLs — for electric vertical takeoff and landing) are the electric scooters of aviation. Everyone from Uber to Airbus is working to build the lightweight aircraft and the aerial networks they will require, to say nothing of a host of well-funded startups, including Joby in the US, Volocopter in Germany, and China’s EHang.

Just last week the airline companies got upset at how disruptive SpaceX and Blue Origin are to their flight plans.

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Links
  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "The Verge" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/19/17586878/larry-page-flying-car-opener-kitty-hawk-cora
  3. "Cora" - https://cora.aero/
  4. "flying taxi" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/9/17438012/kitty-hawk-flying-flying-car-vtol-larry-page
  5. "Flyer" - https://flyer.aero/
  6. "Opener" - https://www.opener.aero/#technology
  7. "press release" - https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/07/12/1536944/0/en/OPENER-Announces-Silicon-Valley-Luminary-Backing.html
  8. "Uber" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17330524/uber-flying-car-elevate-prototype-la
  9. "Airbus" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/22/17036750/airbus-vahana-flying-taxi-electric-first-flight
  10. "Joby" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16959698/joby-aviation-evtol-100-million-investment
  11. "Volocopter" - https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2018/1/8/16866662/volocopter-flying-taxi-first-us-flight-intel-ces-2018
  12. "EHang" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16974310/ehang-passenger-carrying-drone-first-test-flight
  13. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27953
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