Christchurch testing ground for world's first self-piloted electric air taxi
Financed by Google co-founder Larry Page, the company has reached an agreement with the country to test the planes for an official certification process, according to The New York Times - and aim for a commercial network in three years.
Kitty Hawk, which has so far only demonstrated its piloted recreational hovercraft (a luxury item created to help it spur development of its autonomous air taxis) has been testing its autonomous electric passenger aircraft, which resembles a small plane with variable rotors that can go from a vertical alignment for take-off and landing, to a horizontal one for flying like an ordinary plane through the skies. With a 36-foot wingspan, the aircraft flies between 500 and 3,000 feet above the ground at around 110 miles per hour. Just as importantly, it's quiet during flight.
Capacity: Designed for two passengers.
Vertical take-off and landing: Cora is powered by 12 independent lift fans, which enable her to take off and land vertically like a helicopter.
Fixed wing flight: On a single propeller.
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The company plans to build, own and operate a fleet of Cora's, providing an on-demand self-flying taxi service.
Range: Initially about 62 miles / about 100 kilometres.
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern confirmed the news to the Times, saying the project is "about sending the message to the world that our doors are open for people with great ideas who want to turn them into reality". The project went by the code name Zee.Aero for a while, which Kitty Hawk said was the name of their Cora team during the development stage.
The company has secretly been testing their "flying cars" since October 2017 in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Of course, Kitty Hawk isn't the only company working on "air taxi" concepts, but others like EHang and Uber Elevate aren't in operation yet either.
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