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[ad_1] As the Google billionaire’s Kitty Hawk project winds down, it’s worth remembering that moonshots really are long shots. For a project so ambitious, the announcement about the end of flying-car startup Kitty Hawk Corp. was surprisingly terse. A single post on the company's LinkedIn page on Wednesday stated: “We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We're still working on the details of what's next.”The news was greeted with surprise by rival companies. Founded in 2010, Kittyhawk figured out early that it needed to make an aircraft as nimble as a car, rather than bolt some wings on an automobile. It helped pioneer a new type of aircraft called eVTOL, or electric vertical takeoff and landing — essentially a cross...

[ad_1] Kittyhawk, the air-taxi company backed by billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page, will be closing down, dealing a setback to the long-elusive dream of developing flying cars. Kittyhawk, the air-taxi company backed by billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page, will be closing down, dealing a setback to the long-elusive dream of developing flying cars. “We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk,” the company said on Twitter. “We're still working on the details of what's next.” The company's technology is expected to live on in the form of its Wisk Aero joint venture with Boeing Co. Wisk's operations won't be affected by Kittyhawk's shutdown, Boeing said on Wednesday. Kittyhawk traces its history to 2010, w...

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Larry Page’s Flying Car Failure Is a Lesson For Us All

Kittyhawk, Larry Page’s Flying-Car Company, Will Shut Down