{"id":14262,"date":"2017-04-24T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14262"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:54:05","slug":"sci-tech-kitty-hawk-vtol-ultralight-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14262","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Kitty Hawk VTOL ultralight takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another multicopter-style flying vehicle takes to the air\u00a0&#8211; this time a single person water landing craft funded by\u00a0Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/flying-car-kitty-hawk\/\" target=\"_d\">Flying car? Kitty Hawk&#8217;s first prototype looks more like a flying raft &#8211; Alan Boyle\/Geekwire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kittyhawk.aero\/become-a-member\/\" target=\"_d\">Kitty Hawk<\/a>\u00a0fly in this video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMWh4W1C2PM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another multicopter-style flying vehicle takes to the air\u00a0&#8211; this time a single person water landing craft funded by\u00a0Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page:\u00a0Flying car? Kitty Hawk&#8217;s first prototype looks more like a flying raft &#8211; Alan Boyle\/Geekwire See the\u00a0Kitty Hawk\u00a0fly in this video:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3I2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14982,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14982","url_meta":{"origin":14262,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Boeing GoFly Prize for personal flying devices + Videos of personal flying devices","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Boeing is sponsoring the\u00a0GoFly Prize We\u2019re calling on all inventors and doers to make human flight a reality by building the world\u2019s first personal flying device for anyone, anywhere. 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