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Larry Page's air taxi startup loses one of its key designers
The Larry Page-backed air taxi startup Kitty Hawk has dropped a key designer after fights over the company's strategy.
Kitty Hawk moves on from its original flying car project
The Larry Page-backed flying car company Kitty Hawk has shut down work on its first vehicle, the Flyer, and shifted focus to its larger electric plane, dubbed Heaviside.
Kitty Hawk's 'Heaviside' is an ultra-quiet electric flying machine
As the field of players in "urban air mobility" (read: flying cars) get more crowded every day, the Larry Page-backed effort Kitty Hawk is trying a different approach with its latest vehicle: it's very quiet. Dubbed Project Heaviside, it's all-electric, flies like a plane but is capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) like a helicopter, while being as much as 100 times quieter than a helicopter.
