Kitty Hawk abandons its Flyer project, lays off dozens

Image: Kitty Hawk Secretive Larry Page-backed "flying car" startup Kitty Hawk has pulled the plug on its Flyer electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and will lay off most of the 70-person team that was working on it, as TechCrunch first reported. "We have learned what we needed from [Flyer] -- things like vehicle design and testing, manufacturing aircraft, and most of all, how humans would experience eVTOL," Alex Roetter, the president of the Flyer project, and Sebastian Thrun,...