Kitty Hawk Kills Flyer eVTOL, Focuses Instead On Heaviside

With an empty weight of 250-lb., the 10-rotor Flyer was restricted to flying over water.
Credit: Kitty Hawk
After building 111 aircraft and conducting more than 25,000 flights, unmanned and manned, startup Kitty Hawk is winding down the Flyer project to develop a single-seat recreational electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, Kitty Hawk will instead...

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