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Wisk Aero Source:  Kitty Hawk's Cora Big Push for Sustained Electric Powered Personal & Taxi Flight Google founder Larry Page and his Kitty Hawk flying car startup are ramping up their alliance with aerospace giant Boeing to create electric flying vehicles.  The vehicles are being categorized as flying cars.  But Page and Boeing are targeting VTOLs, vertical takeoff and landing vehicles that are fully electric powered and autonomous.  The core R&D effort is Cora, an electric air taxi vehicle that was successfully tested recently in New Zealand.  The Kitty Hawk-Boeing R&D partnership has just been re-booted, re-branded and re-ignited as Wisk Aero and they are going full steam behind Cora. VTOLs Are the Future of Personal Mobility At the moment, Kitty Hawk's Cora is a semiautonomous electric vehicle that seats two passengers. Their goal is to make Cora fully autonomous and electric. Kitty Hawk believes Cora will be ideal to fly people as an a...

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...