{"id":52790,"date":"2017-04-24T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/larry-pages-kitty-hawk-announces-ultralight-aircraft-you-dont-need-a-license-to-fly"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:22:37","slug":"larry-pages-kitty-hawk-announces-ultralight-aircraft-you-dont-need-a-license-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/larry-pages-kitty-hawk-announces-ultralight-aircraft-you-dont-need-a-license-to-fly","title":{"rendered":"Larry Page\u2019s Kitty Hawk announces ultralight aircraft you don\u2019t need a license to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMWh4W1C2PM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fledgling \u201cflying car\u201d industry just received a major boost as Google cofounder Larry Page officially launched his new startup out of stealth.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/kittyhawk.aero\">Kitty Hawk<\/a> has been known to exist for some time already, but we\u2019ve hitherto had no real idea about what it was all about \u2014 beyond it having something to do with flying cars. But earlier this morning, company CEO Sebastian Thrun, who once headed up Google\u2019s self-driving car efforts and later went on to found online learning platform Udacity, tweeted out a link to the company\u2019s website and Twitter page. Kitty Hawk\u2019s website now offers some clue as to what we can expect.<\/p>\n<p>It transpires that Kitty Hawk isn\u2019t working on a \u201cflying car,\u201d as such, instead it\u2019s working on a personal \u201cultralight aircraft\u201d designed to be flown in \u201cuncongested\u201d areas, particularly over fresh water \u2014 it can\u2019t be flown in cities. And, crucially, it doesn\u2019t require a pilot\u2019s license, which opens things up to widespread recreational use, though this will naturally raise some safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/04\/24\/larry-pages-kitty-hawk-announces-ultralight-aircraft-you-dont-need-a-license-to-fly\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/04\/24\/larry-pages-kitty-hawk-an...se-to-fly\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fledgling \u201cflying car\u201d industry just received a major boost as Google cofounder Larry Page officially launched his new startup out of stealth. Founded in 2015, Kitty Hawk has been known to exist for some time already, but we\u2019ve hitherto had no real idea about what it was all about \u2014 beyond it having something [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}