Important Innovations Collection

 Aerospace Giant Invests a Further $450 Million in Wisk Aero                                                  Source:  Wisk Aero Autonomous Air Taxi Travel Silicon Valley, California-based air taxi startup Wisk Aero has raised $450 million from Boeing to build an air taxi flee, capable of 10 million flights per year.  Wisk has developed an electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle that is capable of autonomous, pilot-less flying and can carry 2 passengers.  Wisk Aero is owned by Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car company Kitty Hawk.  There are more than a dozen, major flying car companies globally.  But what distinguishes Wisk is its focus on autonomous flying vehicles.  The company says that autonomous functionality is being built into every aspect of the design and develo...

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...