---- The Flyer ----

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Just take a look at this amazing flying machine. I was thrown back when I saw this flying machine. I found this by looking at @CaseyNeistat's Youtube channel, and I realized I had to share it with you.

theverge.com
The Kitty Hawk Flyer is your own personal electric aircraft

Larry Page’s “flying car” project gets a major upgrade
By Andrew J. Hawkins

A year ago, we got our first look at Google founder Larry Page’s secretive “flying car” project, Kitty Hawk: an all-electric hover-bike designed to be flown specifically over water. This week, the company unveiled an updated version of its recreational aircraft, the Flyer. And it’s quite the improvement over the original concept.
The Flyer weighs 250 pounds and sports 10 battery-powered propellors and two joysticks. It looks sort of like bobsled mounted on a couple of pontoons surrounded by a bunch of drone rotors — so, you know, totally safe I’m sure. Its not intended for soaring through the clouds like you’re George Jetson, with a maximum elevation is 10 feet and a top speed (limited by the flight control system) of 20 mph. Kitty Hawk has kept the pontoons for water landings, but gotten rid of the protective netting from the original prototype.

AN IMPROVEMENT OVER THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT

The company won’t say when the Flyer goes on sale, what the final price will be, or whether they’ve received any orders yet. Those who want to join the Founders Series can fill out an online form and join a waiting list. One of the questions is where potential customers intend to fly the aircraft if they get one.

Another sign that Kitty Hawk is in full-on marketing mode: it invited popular YouTuber Casey Neistat to visit its test facility in Nevada. Neistat sat through two hours of training before he was allowed to fly one of the vehicles (which he said he would do in a subsequent video). Two hours seems to conflict with Kitty Hawk’s original promise last year that potential customers could learn to fly “in minutes,” but honestly the more training the better when it comes to defying the laws of gravity.

@CaseyNeistat