The Blackfly Personal Flight Vehicle
VTOL That Google's Larry Page Is Investing In Source: Opener's Blackfly in Flight with the CEO Piloting Vertical Take Offs and Landings in Your Personal Flying Machine The Blackfly is a single seat, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The startup company developing it is Opener, headquartered in Palo Alto. And none other than Alphabet and Google's Larry Page is a major financial backer behind it. Opener hopes to put it on the market in 2019 with a price-tag of an SUV. Revolutionary Travel Tech This is clearly a revolutionary form of personal transportation. It's not a flying car but aims to compete with cars as the primary mode of transportation. In the picture above founder/CEO Marcus Leng is flying it. They have flown the aircraft more than 22,000 miles and completed 1600 flights. The company says the aircraft can go 25 miles at a speed of 62 mph. Like Larry Page's other personal flying vehicle investment Kitty Hawk and...