HVSD, which is named after renowned physicist and electrical engineer Oliver Heaviside, is Kitty Hawk’s third act. So Kitty Hawk says it will take all it learned with Flyer and apply it to “doubling down on Heaviside as our primary platform.”. One of the salient features of Heaviside is that it is extremely quiet. You have entered an incorrect email address! Instead, a low-slung, orange and black aircraft with eight rotors and a 20-foot wingspan sits on a small asphalt pad. Kitty Hawk abandons its Flyer project, lays off dozens, Vizio’s 55-inch OLED TV is cheaper than ever at Best Buy, Less than $1K for an OLED is a solid deal, Plus, get $50 off the Apple Watch SE. Just beyond this man-made parking spot are acres of grassland and the occasional tree. The startup even offered a $100 three-year “membership” that put prospective customers on a waiting list, gave them access to company-branded gear, and was also supposed to give them exclusive access to a flight simulator and company events. III. The big promises that Thrun and Vander Lind are trying to deliver on here are speed, silence and ease of use. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. Kitty Hawk, the electric airplane startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, has a new aircraft. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Thrun has tapped Mike Huerta, who served as FAA Administrator from 2013 to 2018, as an adviser to Kitty Hawk to help the company get closer to its goal. VI. Kitty Hawk's big claim with the Heaviside is how quiet these electric motors are compared to conventional aircraft. Appendix B: A gravitational and electromagnetic analogy.--v.2. IV. A helicopter that is stationed about 150 feet from where we’re standing is fired up. Then there’s Cora, a two-person, autonomous taxi that Kitty Hawk unveiled in 2018. While the Flyer felt like a novelty when it was first revealed three years ago, there is now a rush of startups and big companies trying to crack the idea of eVTOL aircraft as a viable transportation solution. And most importantly, those who flew Flyer thought the experience was “magical.” The feeling of being inside a human drone is hard to describe. The company says the aircraft was still just a drawing a year ago, and clearly there is still a long way to go to prove its safety, performance — and, ultimately, its worth. The average commute time in the United States is 53 minutes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. HVSD is an electric aircraft designed to go anywhere and land anywhere fast and quietly, Vander Lind says. There is no runway to be found. He wants to add a lumbar support, arm rests and other comfort features. As HVSD gains altitude and then circles above us, the only sound is a few engineers and technicians talking nearby. Heaviside flies at a sound level of just 35 dBA at 1,500 AGL, so quiet that it blends into the background noise of a city or suburb, barely discernible to the human ear. “We are proud to have built the first electrically-powered VTOL aircraft in the world flown by non-pilots.
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