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  • Flyer

    Kitty Hawk moves on from its original flying car project

    by 
    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    06.04.2020

    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

    Kitty Hawk's 'Heaviside' is an ultra-quiet electric flying machine

    by 
    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    10.04.2019

    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.